Justin E. Reed
EF3
I have arrived back in Jacksonville from Orlando. I am sitting at work right now, and lookin SW, about 40 miles away, is an extremely weird looking orange glow, thats the fire by Camp Blanding. Currently, large fires are active in Flagler, Seminole, Alachua, Lee, Clay, and Bradford Counties. The Bradford and Clay fires started today around 2 at 50 acres, now at 1100, it is 4,000 acres due to the 2 merging, this could be our monster fire. I passed close to the Seminole County fire on I-4, it's just north of Sanford, and moving towards the city to the SE. Smoke is highly likely to envelope Orlando, Daytona Beach, Jacksonville, Melbourne/Titusville, Gainesville, and much of SE Georgia. The SE GA fire is now at 100,000 acres and growing. This coastal Nor'easter is blsting winds up to 40mph in JAX Metro and 30mph further inland. This situation is getting way out of hand. A new fire has exploded on the west end of Panama City Beach in Bay County, and is threatening many homes and businesses and one church. Also, a large fire is heading towards hundreds of homes in Walton County just south of Freeport, near Black Creek. I will keep you all posted on this escalating situation. It is currently on track to be equal, and possibly becoming worse than 1998.
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