There are now two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs, and the Florida Forest Service puts the larger one at sixty acres and fifteen per cent contained

Firefighters are working two brush fires near Bonita Beach Road and Radio Tower Road in Bonita Springs, and the larger of them has grown to an estimated sixty acres, Gulf Coast News reports.

The Florida Forest Service put one fire at sixty acres and fifteen per cent contained, and a second fire at four acres and nought per cent contained, as of 5.20 p.m. on Monday, according to that report.

This desk reported this fire earlier in the afternoon, when the Forest Service had a single fire at an estimated five acres and nought per cent contained as of 3.54 p.m. Those figures have been overtaken and the earlier item should not be read as current.

The Bonita Springs Fire Control and Rescue District told the station 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 said the fire covered about half an acre initially and has continued to grow.

The Forest Service has dozers responding to construct fire lines around the area, according to the district. The district said crews will remain on scene until the fire is extinguished and the area is safe.

The fire district is asking people to avoid the area to give emergency crews room to work.

Containment is a statement about how much of the perimeter is held, not a share of the fire that has gone out. At fifteen per cent, most of the edge of the larger fire is still open.

Nobody has stated a cause for either fire. The thunder is what the caller described to the district, and no agency has said what started this.

No evacuation has been ordered, no structure has been reported as threatened, no injury has been reported and no road closure has been announced. None of 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 these fires that this desk could read, so both agencies' accounts reach the public through the station and are credited that way. The district's own site carried nothing on the fire, and the Forest Service wildfire conditions page returned a server error to this desk. Gulf Coast News says it has asked both agencies 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 is in force over these fires. There are no active storms in the Atlantic. Power is normal in both counties.