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The Max Road fire in Florida’s Everglades has spread to more than 11,000 acres and is at 50% containment late Monday.
A brush fire caused major traffic delays Sunday evening for drivers leaving the Florida Keys as thick black smoke filled the sky near Florida City.
Burn bans cover dozens of counties as dry air, gusty winds and deep drought drive wildfire outbreaks and evacuations across parts of the state.
Heat and humidity over South Florida helped a blaze build towering pyrocumulus clouds seen by NOAA satellites, with rain chances rising this week.
The sheriff's office said the "unrecognizable remains" of a juvenile was located among the debris when the fire was extinguished.
Police in Florida were warning drivers not to stop and look at an Everglades fire that, by Monday, May 11, had scorched almost 5,000 acres west of US 27 and Pines Boulevard in western Broward County.
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Drivers along Southeast Federal Highway in Stuart on the morning of May 11 might see light smoke in the area.