Using a bright orange Bambi Bucket, a Florida Forest Service team worked to put out a brush fire that has grown over the past few days in South Florida.

A fire in west Miami-Dade County has now burned 235 acres and was 85% contained, as of Tuesday afternoon, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue officials confirmed.

Authorities set fire to a wooded area in Deerfield Beach in order to protect the environment.

Brush fires are leading to smoky conditions in some parts of Broward County on Thursday.

A large grass fire in west Miami-Dade is now 40% contained after burning 410 acres, the Florida Forest Service confirmed, and on Thursday another brush fire erupted -- this time in Miami Lakes.

A large grass fire in west Miami-Dade is now 80% contained after burning 110 acres, the Florida Forest Service confirmed.

Officials say veterans forced to evacuate a nursing home by a Florida Panhandle wildfire have been allowed to return home.

Residents in 600 homes in the Florida Panhandle have been evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two houses and damaged 12 others, in an area that has spent the past three years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael.

A large brush fire Monday caused authorities to shut down Krome Avenue between Kendall Drive and Southwest Eighth Street in west Miami-Dade.

Card Sound Road reopened in both directions overnight after a wildfire scorched about 13,000 acres over the course of a couple of days.

A brush fire just south of the Homestead-Miami Speedway has scorched at least 2,500 acres, but it was not burning near any homes or structures, officials say.

WEST BROWARD, Fla. – A brush fire burning by Alligator Alley about two miles west of the Miami-Dade and Broward counties line is not an accidental fire, according to the Florida Forest Service, but a prescribed and controlled burn. The Forest Service was burning underbrush Thursday afternoon in the Everglades, taking advantage of cooler temperatures as a way to clear out materials that could prove to be fire hazards in the future. Sky 10 was over the long line of flames, about 3,000 acres, west of US 27 at the County Line and South of Interstate 75. The burn was generating large amounts of smoke. The Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department tweeted that anyone with respiratory issues is encouraged to stay indoors.

FFS EvergladesFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Officials briefly closed westbound lanes of Alligator Alley on Tuesday due to smoke from the wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades in western Broward County. The lanes were closed for nearly 25 minutes before a light rain fell in the area and cleared away most of the smoke. The Florida Forest Service said Tuesday the blaze had grown to 33,500 acres and is now 40 percent contained. The wildfire is located about 8 miles west of the city of Weston. Florida Forest Service officials confirmed lightning started the wildfire Sunday night just north of a busy stretch of Interstate 75 and a few miles west of Highway 27.