A brush fire near Bonita Beach Road and Tower Road in Bonita Springs has grown from half an acre to an estimated five and is nought per cent contained, and the fire district is asking people to stay away from it
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Firefighters are working a growing brush fire near Bonita Beach Road and Tower Road in Bonita Springs, and the fire district is asking people to keep away from the area.
Gulf Coast News reports, from the Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District, that crews responded at about 2.30 p.m. on Monday after a resident reported hearing thunder and seeing flames in the area.
The district told the station the fire covered about half an acre initially and has continued to grow.
The Florida Forest Service put the fire at an estimated five acres and nought per cent contained as of 3.54 p.m., according to the same report.
The Forest Service has dozers responding to construct fire lines around the area to surround and contain it, the district said. Crews will remain on scene until the fire is extinguished and the area is safe.
The fire district asked people to avoid the area to give emergency crews room to work.
Nobody has stated a cause. The thunder is what the caller described to the district, and no agency has said what started this fire.
Nought per cent containment is a statement about how much of the perimeter is held rather than a prediction, and it is a reading taken at 3.54 p.m. on a fire that has been growing through the afternoon.
No evacuation has been ordered, no structure has been reported as threatened, no injury has been reported and no road closure has been announced. Nothing in that is an all clear on an open fire; it is what the public record holds at the time of writing.
There is no document behind this one. Neither the Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District nor the Florida Forest Service has published its own written release on this fire, so both agencies' accounts reach the public through the station and are credited that way. Gulf Coast News says it has asked both for more information.
Conditions were checked in the same pass. The National Weather Service has ten active alerts in Florida and not one of them covers Lee or Collier County, so no advisory, watch or warning was in force over this fire.
Where we read it: James Curtis at Gulf Coast News. Read their story.
The document: No public filing has been released.
