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A wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades sent the smell of smoke and haze into the air across South Florida early Wednesday.
Firefighters on Friday continued to battle a massive brush fire in the Everglades that has scorched more than 42,000 acres of land in western Broward County.
The two wildfires burning in the Everglades, prompting an air-quality alert for Broward County, have combined and grown tenfold, burning over 19,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon, according to the Florida Forest Service.
A brush fire continues to burn in the Everglades in western Broward County.Officials said what started as two separate fires<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More