May 8, 2007
Dunedin, Florida
Photographer states :: 260 Fires - That is the estimated total number of Wildfires that are spreading throughout Florida. We live in the Tampa Bay Area, and the smoke from all the fires around us has finally come to the bay area. We are saturated this morning. The smell, the haze..we need rain so badly. 260 Fires. These photos not for rating, they are to show how bad this is.
Bradford Fires Char 25 Square Miles (click above)
Fire Crews Work To Contain Fast-Moving Fires
Fire Crews Work To Contain Fast-Moving Fires
NEAR STARKE, Fla. -- About 1,000 people were evacuated from 700 homes Bradford County as three fast-moving brushfires raced through bone-dry forest and merged into one 16,000-acre blaze.
Firefighters thing the fire has actually covered a larger area, but the smoke and wind on Tuesday made it impossible to do aerial surveys.
"It jumped over county Road 100 like it wasn't even there. So, nothing that we have done has done anything to stop this fire," said Annaleasa Winter of the Division of Forestry.
Firefighters thing the fire has actually covered a larger area, but the smoke and wind on Tuesday made it impossible to do aerial surveys.
"It jumped over county Road 100 like it wasn't even there. So, nothing that we have done has done anything to stop this fire," said Annaleasa Winter of the Division of Forestry.
