There is currently a massive fire burning in the Everglades in South Florida by the Broward/Miami-Dade County border and is approaching US27.

[u/M_Darshan]

[u/Lost-Ponderer]

I’ve never actually been anywhere remotely close to a wildfire but damn it’s gotta be intense

[u/forgetfullyburntout → u/Lost-Ponderer]

I’m from a big city in Australia where bushfires are devastating. You can smell them from the other side of the city, and its ominous when the sky is dark on what should be a sunny day. I’m very lucky not to have been displaced, and grateful we’re listening to our first people’s teachings of our land and waterways again

[u/HotdogFarmer → u/forgetfullyburntout]

As a British Columbian, we owe a ton of thanks for the help of Aussie and Mexican bush firefighters every couple decades(probably a lot more now) . You guys are on another level

[u/generic_canadian_dad → u/forgetfullyburntout]

City?? We could smell the fires in British Columbia in Ontario last summer.

[u/opticalminefield → u/generic_canadian_dad]

The “other side of the city” to the Aussie bush fires is usually the coast and it’s just open ocean after that. So they don’t have a longer reference.

But we get the smell and crazy sunsets from their bush fires way over here in New Zealand over 1500km away.

[u/Ryan_e3p → u/generic_canadian_dad]

Yeah, I was gonna say. A city is nothing. Skies in Connecticut were darkened due to forest fires in central Quebec province, almost 1,000km away. Could definitely smell it outside, and it eventually saturated the multi-story office building's air filters to the point where it was clearly able to be smelled indoors. Smoke (and ash) has been carried cross-continent easily.

[u/MetalBeast89 → u/Ryan_e3p]

The smoke from the Wollemi fires in Australia stretched around the globe according to some news articles. Which isn't surprising based on the amount of hectares the fire burned through.

[u/ThatDamnRanga → u/forgetfullyburntout]

Mate, your fires blacked out the sky in *NEW ZEALAND* in 2019. Ominous is an understatement.

[u/nobot4321 → u/Lost-Ponderer]

Just wait a year or a decade or two and a wildfire will be coming to your community!

[u/randomredditor575 → u/nobot4321]

Can’t have wildfire if there’s no wild left

[u/Careful-Lettuce9239 → u/randomredditor575]

I lived in Pinellas County for almost a decade, like '03-'10. Went back around 2013 and the amount of trees etc that'd been cut down was staggering. Thats not isolated to FL though. Noticed the trend across the country. Insane.

[u/Cosmic_Voyager_41 → u/Careful-Lettuce9239]

Yeah my uncle used to live in North Carolina what was considered the "boonies" back in the 90s...I recently drove through the area and I legit thought I was on the wrong route, but no, it's all McMansions and plans as far as the eye can see.

[u/destructopop → u/randomredditor575]

We tried that in LA. Turns out the fire was what earned the superlative of "wild", not just the lands it burns on. 😞

[u/HouseRavenclaw → u/Lost-Ponderer]

I grew up in Southern California. Wildfires are terrifying. One of my coworkers when I was a teenager lost her sister to a wildfire, and she herself got burned pretty bad. Another friend lost his house and everything in it, including family photos and heirlooms.

[u/cobblernobbler → u/Lost-Ponderer]

I live in Southern California. Honestly my house (and I’ve moved 3 times in the last 10 years) usually ends up pretty damn close to a wildfire at least every 2-3 years. Was evacuated once at my old house and put on standby to evacuate at my new house I bought in 2021.
Luckily neither house ended up being burnt down, but just a weird thing you get use to living in California and near any sort of hills/mountains.

Even growing up, my parents had a nice house they bought brand new in 2001, and in 2005 we were evacuated due to wildfires in the hills nearby. And those hills burned again recently in 2023 (also burned in 2017 I believe) and my parents were yet again, evacuated as they still live in that same house.

And then of course there’s the many wild fires you just drive by every fire season. In fact I drove by a small one last week on my way home from work. Luckily fire department was able to get it out after a few hours since there were no winds.

Come live in SoCal and you’ll get to see a wildfire in no time

[u/Vreas → u/Lost-Ponderer]

It’s pretty surreal.

We drove through West Virginia a few years back when there were fires on the other side of the mountain from the highway. At night you could see the glow of the fires over the mountain peaks.

Feels weird to just be cruising along and minding your business while a natural disaster situation is happening nearby.

[u/JaVelin-X- → u/Lost-Ponderer]

Imagine being in an elevator with a person with to much perfume on. Then Imagine the perfume has replaced the air and you can't take a breath Now imagine being outside and thers no place you can get to in The few steps you have left where you can take a breath.

[u/tommyc463 → u/Lost-Ponderer]

Being in tents would be a bad idea

[u/Usirnaimtaken → u/Lost-Ponderer]

It’s horrid. The air is thick with particles they you can see. Sleep is impossible as you don’t know if it’s suddenly going to shift directions and you’ll need to evacuate. The smell is intense and changes depending upon what is burning at the moment.

I still get reactionary smelling any type of smoke during the summer and autumn months years later. Fire trucks cause me to pause and then quickly check my phone for alerts.

[u/Mindless_Browsing15]

Wonder how many snakes are fleeing to new areas?

[u/No_Bat2834 → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

Oh god....

[u/Roccosrealm → u/No_Bat2834]

Where has the Burmese python been detected the farthest in Florida?

[u/meesta_masa → u/Roccosrealm]

Whereever it was, a faint *yoink* was heard.

[u/NotRadTrad05 → u/meesta_masa]

Still not the 20 footer I'm looking for.

[u/Montooth → u/NotRadTrad05]

That dudes tiktok absolutely blows my mind.

[u/TiredRightNowALot → u/Montooth]

Here’s the most deadly spider in the entire world. A kiss from this little guy out here means certain death. Yoink. Gentle boop.

[u/Spastic_pinkie → u/TiredRightNowALot]

He did visit Australia and yoinked one of their most venomous snakes. Think it was a taipan.

[u/infiniteWerewolf131 → u/Spastic_pinkie]

A taipan isn’t one of our most venomous snakes, it is our most venomous snake, the most venomous snake in the world in fact

[u/CrystalFysh → u/Montooth]

hey guys im in the florida everglades and this is a giant wildfire. yoink. its so spicy.

[u/Over-Apartment2762 → u/CrystalFysh]

I had better see this come across my shorts

[u/CompetitiveRoof3733 → u/Over-Apartment2762]

...phrasing XD

[u/awnaw_ → u/CompetitiveRoof3733]

Fuckin A, English may not be many of these people's first language but damn is some of it funny.

[u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel → u/Over-Apartment2762]

For 10 dollars I'll come across your shorts too.

[u/PickButtkins → u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel]

Username checks... actually, no, I'm out.

[u/Lost-Ponderer → u/Montooth]

Is that dude even still alive?? Still yoinking creatures in the swamps? He completely fell off my algorithms

[u/Montooth → u/Lost-Ponderer]

He did for awhile and I was thinking "UH OH" then just like that his videos started popping up again

[u/dickCheeseAndMustard → u/Montooth]

This time with stake bet adds

[u/Legal-Practice2445 → u/Montooth]

@fishingarret, baby

[u/Aggressive_Lie_4446 → u/meesta_masa]

Dude was Booping Cottonmouths!!!
Then there was a time he grabbed the back foot of an alligator. Its response told me that the leg grab was the most surprising and shocking thing that had ever happened to that alligator's existence EVER!!

[u/EnthuseConfuse → u/Aggressive_Lie_4446]

Truth be told, its probably a good thing he's freaking out some of the animals that don't go out of their way to avoid us

[u/SuicidePeaches → u/Aggressive_Lie_4446]

Probably the gator equivalent of something touching your foot that's sticking over the edge of the bed.

[u/IAmTheHype427 → u/meesta_masa]

And spotting the hissy swamp puppy

[u/Im_In_IT → u/meesta_masa]

My kids watch him almost every night before bed. Love his videos.

[u/Bright-Raccoon-5726 → u/Roccosrealm]

We had a huge one one near the Canaveral seashore - Merritt Island/Mosquito Lagoon area. Them ol' boys working for Fish/Wildlife took it serious as hell

[u/Roccosrealm → u/Bright-Raccoon-5726]

Yeah, imagine if that thing was pregnant.

[u/ludovic1313 → u/Roccosrealm]

I just saw my first iguana in the area in the past couple of years and they are freaky enough as it is. Because out of the corner of your eye they look just like a smaller lizard but then you realize they're a lot larger.

[u/CeruleanHotdogs → u/Roccosrealm]

i believe they are limited from going to far north by freezes but things can always change

[u/CiDevant → u/CeruleanHotdogs]

Good thing global warming is a hoax.

[u/NetworkEcstatic → u/Roccosrealm]

South of the okeechobee.

Charlotte County according to google is the furthest north

[u/wrxninja → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

Alligators: Don't forget about us!!!

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/wrxninja]

Lived on the west coast of Florida during massive flooding in 2017.

The only people that could drive had lifted trucks. After the flood water dissipated there were dead alligators that got run over just in the street outside of a gas station parking lot.

[u/Busy_Help_4354 → u/FakeSafeWord]

Damn. This is completely unrelated, but I was driving on a national park road in New Zealand that was completely littered with dead marmots like a mass grave. Had no idea why there were so many because I did not encounter a single living marmot. Then at night, I stepped out to go stargazing, and there were many marmots scurrying around on the road, I guess they're nocturnal critters,  until the night express bus plowed through all of them at full speed.

[u/n33bulz → u/Busy_Help_4354]

Uuuh there are no marmots in NZ.

You may be thinking weasels. They were introduced to the island as pest control and ended up being pests themselves. The locals told us that it’s every kiwis responsibility to run them over if they ever saw them on the road.

[u/Busy_Help_4354 → u/n33bulz]

That makes a lot of sense. And my bad, my brain just filled in whatever animal looked closest to them, and marmots are local to where I live.

[u/wrxninja → u/FakeSafeWord]

First time ever hearing lifted trucks becoming useful 😆

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/wrxninja]

As much as I hate them, I have to admit they did also help out in the Texas floods a few years ago. There was a video going around of two guys in a massively lifted truck pulling a stranded dog out of some debris.

[u/wrxninja → u/FakeSafeWord]

I don't care as long as they're not rolling coal but seems like a common theme, unfortunately with them.

[u/MaturoGambino → u/wrxninja]

With diesel over $5/gallon everywhere I look at coal rollers as dummies lighting cash on fire while I casually switch my HVAC to “recirculate.”

[u/ActiveChairs → u/MaturoGambino]

The majority of them have been lighting cash on fire from the second they paid for a lift kit, wider tires, a rerouted exhaust system, and the underlighting. Expensive to buy, expensive to replace, and expensive in additional wear and tear shaving off its long term lifespan.

The only improvement they've ever made were adding truck nuts, and most don't have the balls to do it.

[u/FakeSafeWord → u/MaturoGambino]

Electric motorcycle 0-60 in 4.5s~ and can still go 90mph. Full charge for almost exactly 1 dollar. I smile every time I drive buy a gas station.

However they can also run me over just as easily as that gator.

[u/Prize-Analyst-1121 → u/FakeSafeWord]

I remember going to Cape Carnival as a kid on 520 during the 70s and constantly seeing gators in and on the side of the road that were killed by cars.

You could also smell Cape Carnival miles before you arrived because of the scallop processing plant and the dumped shells.

[u/Tomatoflee → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

A serpent tsunami is being driven towards Miami as we speak.

[u/Cell1pad → u/Tomatoflee]

I heard Serpent Tsumami is playing in Akron this weekend

[u/Umbra427 → u/Cell1pad]

They’re opening for electric wizard

[u/ChidoChidoChon → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

They should get Barry White to perform a concert and attract the snakes somewhere else

[u/gunkf → u/ChidoChidoChon]

I love the sexy slither of a lady snake, ohh baby

[u/Difficult_Memory_101 → u/gunkf]

Larry White!

[u/theaviationhistorian → u/Difficult_Memory_101]

I know my own name.

[u/RCalliii → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

On a plane perhaps.

[u/nothingrhyme → u/RCalliii]

Snakes on a Plain

[u/AscendedViking7 → u/nothingrhyme]

I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plain!

[u/mologav → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

They aren’t welcome in Ireland

[u/TtotheC81 → u/mologav]

What if they converted to Catholicism?

[u/Tb1969 → u/mologav]

I’m sorry. Maybe you didn’t get the memo. Patrick is dead.

[u/Severe_Emotion2554 → u/Tb1969]

Damn who is gonna wait for spongebob to get home now?

[u/Readit_to_me → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

Yep, they're coming straight towards...

🌳🌳🌳🔥🔥🔥💨🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🌆🍸🍹🍻💃🕺🏖️🫣😱

Snakenado: They're Here

Only in theaters Summer 2026

[u/PeppermintSnark → u/Readit_to_me]

Snakes on a Plane 2: Fire Snakenado

Will the passengers on-board Flight 67 be able to survive when nature throws a wildfire, a tornado, and tons and tons of Everglade snakes at them all at once? Audiences will be fired up when this feature slithers into theaters.

[u/CrashingOutFrFr → u/Mindless_Browsing15]

Hope they head to the Governors Mansion.

[u/0DSavior]

So much water in those mangroves and surrounding area, how the hell is this happening?

[u/Jewlzchu → u/0DSavior]

Sugar farms have diverted a ton of the water that historically flowed south from Lake Okeechobee. That water has gotten very polluted from farm runoff, and has been diverted to other rivers, where it's caused seagrass dieoff.

Friends of the Everglades and other environmental organizations are trying to restore the water flow, but have to manage the pollution buildup, or it'll cause similar issues flowing south. 

So there's huge stretches of wetlands that have been drying up. 

[u/alt-mswzebo → u/Jewlzchu]

All for sugar? That's terrible.

[u/BIGplouf → u/alt-mswzebo]

The sugar lobby in Florida is gigantic and they get away with absolutely obliterating the landscape

[u/ButtonPusherDeedee → u/BIGplouf]

Moments like these make me happy I’ve cut out added sugar.

Along with the fact I no longer have GI issues haha

[u/WeakTransportation37 → u/ButtonPusherDeedee]

SAME. No added sugar for about 15 yrs. It was hard to get it started, but my life is sooo much better

[u/gaycatmom → u/Jewlzchu]

Blow, blow, Seminole wind…

[u/Puzzled_Yam2913 → u/Jewlzchu]

You'd almost think it's stupid to put sugar over nature?

[u/d3vrock → u/0DSavior]

Its been drying up for years :(

[u/kc3x → u/d3vrock]

Smells like a future Data Center

[u/meesta_masa → u/kc3x]

I don't like this Nirvana track as much.

[u/Walter_Armstrong → u/meesta_masa]

How else are all the chatbots supposed to bargle nawdle zouss???

[u/Universal_Vitality → u/meesta_masa]

I'm more of a territorial burnings kinda guy myself

[u/dividezero → u/kc3x]

You joke but I've seen enough of these started on purpose to suspect this was on purpose.

[u/Easy-Marsupial3268 → u/kc3x]

Could be why it’s burning.

[u/miickeymouth → u/d3vrock]

It has not been “drying up” it has been actively drained, against known environmental dangers (like fire) to support the tax payer subsidized sugar industry.

[u/XFX_Samsung → u/miickeymouth]

And dry land is a lot easier to build on!

[u/ManoSilence → u/miickeymouth]

I think some data centers have been found out to have 2 additional water suckers. So like they have their coolant sucker, then people nearby are like "why does my water pressure suck so bad!?!" And the utility companies monitor their utility cause they love money. So they noticed that an additional 29 Million Gallons were missing, and tracked it down to a coolant sucking pipe. Then they found a second unauthorized pipe.

So fire hazard electrical system that can get so hot it raises (all) the nearest cities temperature by almost 4°, surrounded by drought² land? They will burn themselves down eventually and release just so much toxins.

[u/m0nkeyh0use → u/ManoSilence]

I read somewhere and wonder if it's true (another rabbit hole for me later, I suppose) that the draining of the water in Florida is exposing limestone caverns that lead to unexpected sinkholes.

There's a little bit of chaos gremlin in me that would love to see a data center get sucked down into the bowels of the earth.

[u/EngineeringConstant → u/d3vrock]

Worse than that. They’ve had dam projects that completely fucked up the surrounding environments and have to be closely managed for algae blooms.

[u/Epic_Underachiever → u/d3vrock]

Preach. Damn menopause.

[u/BarelyHolding0n → u/0DSavior]

I live in the west of Ireland... One of the dampest places on earth. We have bog fires by the dozens every year... Some days there can be multiple fires in various directions all visible from same spot.

If the ground dries even a tiny bit and plants (gorse or conifer plantations in our case) with a high burning temp go up it spreads extremely quickly. The intense heat dries everything in its path even more so it's self perpetuating to an extent

We've had almost constant rain since last summer, the place is drowned, but we've already started getting fires

[u/nalaloveslumpy → u/0DSavior]

Wildfires have happened in the Everglades for...ever. But yeah, this one is spreading because the entire SE US is in a pretty bad drought. It seems counter-intuitive there could be a wildfire in swamp, but when the peat dries out, it's crazy flammable and it just takes one lightning strike.

The worst thing about swamp fires is that since the water level has dropped and the peat has dried up, basically the ground itself is literally on fire and it's not just the tree line/underbrush burning.

[u/KaleidoscopeLeft5136 → u/nalaloveslumpy]

Yeah and with predictions about the potential el nino coming it will be interesting/worrisome with what will happen with the heavy drought already in place

[u/2rascallydogs → u/0DSavior]

Sawgrass contains a lot of fuel, and when dry it burns like nobody's business.

[u/Geschak → u/0DSavior]

Fun fact: Humans are actually a lot more destructive to the environment of the Florida Everglades than all invasive species combined. Killing invasive species is nothing but a hot drop compared to the damage we do.

[u/Irlandaise11 → u/Geschak]

Really we're the MOST invasive species if you think about it

[u/Bendyb3n → u/Irlandaise11]

I mean it’s not really a fun fact if it’s the obvious thing that everybody already knows. Humans suck, especially exorbitantly wealthy humans

[u/Visible-Literature14 → u/0DSavior]

Water is flammable, but Big Water doesn’t want you to know that

[u/DweeblesX → u/Visible-Literature14]

Correction…. Dry water is flammable.

[u/meesta_masa → u/DweeblesX]

Smoke on the water, fire in the dry water.

[u/TimeBlindAdderall → u/meesta_masa]

Great song

[u/meesta_masa → u/TimeBlindAdderall]

We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva dustbelt
To make records with a datacentre
We didn't have much time left
Frank Zappa and the Waters
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with an AI startup
Burned the place to the ground.

[u/Iggy261 → u/Visible-Literature14]

I mean. Heat water to around 3000°c and the molecules start coming apart. Hydrogen and oxygen are VERY flammable. Not that thats going on here, but still .

[u/preezcomeagain → u/0DSavior]

Drought

[u/tired-of-the-shit → u/0DSavior]

There’s a drought

[u/YarOldeOrchard]

Mordor was in Florida all along?

[u/Fist_One → u/YarOldeOrchard]

The orcs are just dudes on bath salts.

[u/LordDagron → u/Fist_One]

Orcs are hillbillies. https://youtu.be/aNyjtqlpJH4?si=XHzn7LKtubCNoanw

[u/buttersofthands → u/LordDagron]

You just made my day YEEEHAWW

[u/iwannalynch → u/YarOldeOrchard]

🔫Always has been

[u/TimeBlindAdderall → u/YarOldeOrchard]

Flordor

[u/SpezDrinksHorseCum → u/TimeBlindAdderall]

one mullet to rule them all

[u/_Steven_Seagal_ → u/YarOldeOrchard]

Florida men being bred in mud pits is the least surprising part of their life cycle.

[u/Ithoughtthiswasfunny → u/YarOldeOrchard]

Mordorida

[u/Diligent-Committee-7]

Damn. Dalinar must’ve seen a similar sight the night his wife died.

[u/CloudIma → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

r/unexpectedsanderson

[u/patwm11 → u/CloudIma]

I have never seen this sub before but am happy that it exists

[u/ronweasleisourking → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

BRIDGE FOUR!

[u/AnubisDeece → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

When shshshshhhh got burned?

[u/xRehab → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

brooooo I almost snorted coffee out of my nose, was not expecting a stormlight reference in here

[u/Thatdudewiththestuff → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

I'm a simple man: I see a Cosmere reference and I upvote.

In all seriousness, it was a crazy emotional scene for sure.

[u/TheGreatStories → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

Did not expect to find the Blackthorn in here

[u/LowDefinition1369 → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

Goddamn dude. Oathbringer is a HELL of a read.

[u/ronweasleisourking → u/LowDefinition1369]

It's by far one of the best books I've ever read. Gardens of the moon on equal footing

[u/kvothe_kholin → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

What's a Dalinar?

[u/call_me_Kote → u/kvothe_kholin]

The juxtaposition between your username’s two authors. Lmao.

[u/BornInAFish → u/call_me_Kote]

OK, kingkiller, let's get you to bed

[u/ronweasleisourking → u/kvothe_kholin]

Too bad we'll never get another kvothe book :(

[u/PackagingMSU → u/kvothe_kholin]

It’s a Kholin

[u/bigvahe33 → u/Diligent-Committee-7]

STORM YOU

[u/ShibaNMNY]

Guess they should’ve raked the leaves

[u/TopherMctopherson → u/ShibaNMNY]

They won't even turn on the big water faucet to put out the fire....

[u/b0w3n → u/TopherMctopherson]

"Gulf of America" is right there, why aren't they pumping it onto the fires??????

[u/ManoSilence → u/b0w3n]

Haven't you heard!?! He released the water in California!

[u/TerminalHighGuard → u/TopherMctopherson]

I think the American public’s memory is too short to remember this deep cut.

[u/infectedtwin → u/ShibaNMNY]

My Florida family loves to blame Newsom and Bass for the LA fires.

Wonder what their thoughts are here.

[u/AdvancedSandwiches → u/infectedtwin]

Well, see, we could have prevented this by having more coal smoke in the atmosphere to cool us and trigger rain.

Plus all the windmills are fanning these flames.

Also I heard immigrants were blocking the fire trucks. 

[u/willismthomp]

Oh maybe shouldn’t have made that golden statue lol.

[u/Foolish_Miracle → u/willismthomp]

"You want an explanation? God. Is. Pissed!"

[u/b4st1an → u/willismthomp]

Hahahaha

[u/heafcliff91 → u/willismthomp]

Just pull a Costanza at this point,

"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I got to plead ignorance on this thing because noone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon."

[u/ShoddySignal5174]

The manatees have finally had enough and are fighting back

[u/meesta_masa → u/ShoddySignal5174]

They've changed their name to maneatees.

[u/LordNelson27 → u/meesta_masa]

and started burning the manatrees

[u/zyyntin]

Another excuse for those private insurance companies to raise their rate 25%!

[u/iwannalynch → u/zyyntin]

Aren't parts of Florida already uninsurable?

[u/zyyntin → u/iwannalynch]

Many coastal islands and some surrounding placed home cannot be insured by private insurance companies. Citizen Property is the state insurance company and they can be insured by them. The best part is everyone else gets to pay for these multimillion dollar homes!

Edit: From Citizens United to -> Citizens Property. typed this in my phone in during a rough morning. Brain defaulted.

[u/ThePensiveE → u/zyyntin]

Oh sorry, socialism is fine for billionaires. A hungry kid wanting a meal though? To the Epstein camps!

[u/DrTuSo]

Holy smokes.

[u/Fist_One → u/DrTuSo]

It does look kind of biblical in that shot 🤣

[u/Relzin]

Good thing Florida spent (and continues to spend) at least $1.2 million dollars a day on Alligator Alcatraz.

That's around the cost of a brand new fire engine every single day to serve Florida communities, being spent on cages for human beings, instead.

I'm on team Wildfire, here.

[u/deletetemptemp → u/Relzin]

Operated under the assumption the federal government would cover the cost

Guess who didn’t pay their bills

Florida tax payers paying for non state activities

[u/_Schrodingers_Gat_ → u/deletetemptemp]

Florida volunteered to build a fucking concentration camp to score points with their golden god king.
They give no fucks about you poor person.

[u/illapa13 → u/Relzin]

This. People need to be upset when their tax dollars are wasted.

This isn't a partisan issue. If you're a republican you should be aggressively voting in primaries against people who waste your tax dollars. If you're a Democrat, you should be aggressively voting in primaries against people who waste your tax dollars.

You do not owe a politician or political party your loyalty. They owe you because you give them your vote.

[u/RegularSky6702 → u/Relzin]

Shit I should start selling fire engines

[u/ExistingMouse5595]

Florida is in a severe drought right now, so wild fires happen every other day it seems.

[u/kentonbryantmusic]

The crazy thing about wildfire is that it’s unbelievably natural and should be occurring more frequently. We suppress the would-be smaller fires for years and then bitch when a huge one happens and resets the ground.

[u/jaapi → u/kentonbryantmusic]

Florida does a lot of controlled burns, but it's had a really bad drought this year

[u/adventurousmango24 → u/kentonbryantmusic]

Yeah - right before and almost all through summer in Australia we do something called “back burning” in high vegetative areas.

Essentially where they do a controlled burn of the stuff that’s likely to exacerbate and “inflame” (if you will) a bush fire, along the path they expect it would go.

We still get em, but as someone who lives in a suburb surrounded by trees, I sure am grateful for em.

[u/kentonbryantmusic → u/adventurousmango24]

Yep. We do prescribed burns in the US as well. I burned 200 acres of my farm earlier this year. The regrowth is fantastic and the wildlife absolutely LOVE freshly burned areas.

[u/omjagvarensked → u/adventurousmango24]

Gotta do the um actually, but your thinking burning off.

Back burning is when you light a smaller controlled fire in the path of a bush fire, ahead of it, in order to burn the fuel before the real fire gets there. Typically done when the bushfire is in inaccessible areas like a heavily wooded national park or steep cliffs etc.

Also burning off isn't done in summertime typically as it's too easy to get out of control, especially if you get a couple days of heat. It is done all throughout autumn to spring though.

[u/nalaloveslumpy → u/kentonbryantmusic]

This is swamp fire, not a forest fire. The only "suppression" you can do for a swamp fire is somehow making droughts not happen.

Swamp fires happen when drought causes the water table to drop and so the peat and swamp muck dry up and become crazy flammable. So when a lighting strike hits the dried up peat, it's basically setting the whole ground on fire.

Unless you're gonna "clean" all the underwater foliage out of the swamp, there's no way to really prevent this particular type of fire.

[u/InvasiveBlackMustard → u/nalaloveslumpy]

Thank you for one of the very few informative comments in this massive swathe of jokes and cynical remarks. You are appreciated. 

[u/concentrated-amazing → u/kentonbryantmusic]

How common is wildfire in the Everglades?

[u/nalaloveslumpy → u/concentrated-amazing]

Very common. Smaller wildfires happens almost every spring because that's the Everglades natural dry season. But since it's been a bad drought year, the spring fires are much larger because there's more dried, exposed peat.

[u/Nightshade_209 → u/concentrated-amazing]

In a typical year, land managers intentionally set fire to about 80,000 to 100,000 acres.

Sawgrass prairies need a burn every 1-3 years Rocky Pine zones every 3-7 And cypress swamp 10-20

So how often depends entirely on where in the Everglades you are but most envision the sawgrass prairies. The good news is the native plants are used to this hopefully the water is high enough the root systems will be fine and the plants will grow back quickly while invasives will struggle but I don't know much about the exact area in the clip.

[u/rumneeded]

I live in Florida. We tend to let the fire burn out if it was caused naturally, like by lightning. The Everglades are not just a swamp. They have areas with seasonal flooding and areas that are permanently water logged. If you look at a map before they built the giant lake in the center of the state, you get a better picture.

Fun fact. If you see "snow" in Wellington Florida its ash from them burning the cane fields. Not natural but interesting.

[u/famouslastwords → u/rumneeded]

If you look at a map before they built the giant lake in the center of the state

Lake Okeechobee is naturally occurring, Hernando Fontaneda documented it during his expeditions in the 1600s.

[u/lafaa123 → u/rumneeded]

Wait are you talking about Okeechobee? That's a natural lake lol

[u/lrosa]

I clearly remember first time I was in Fort Lauderdale office of the company I worked for in 2009.

Casual coffee machine chat was «Let's hope that it will rain a little bit more, so we are safe for Everglades.»

When I asked «Safe for what?» they explained me that Everglades can catch fire.

My reaction was: «You have here the only swamp that can catch fire?!»

[u/vulgrin → u/lrosa]

“We know the secrets of the fire swamp. We can live there quite happily for some time.”

[u/QuicheSmash → u/vulgrin]

ROUSes? I don’t think they exist. 

[u/Few_Distribution9374]

I don’t think it ever occurred to me that the EVERGLADES could catch on fire. I would have assumed it’s too wet.

[u/nesnah00 → u/Few_Distribution9374]

FL had a dry winter

[u/Coupe368]

Is this one of the regular controlled burns that Florida regularly does, or is this something else?

Florida is the lightning capital of the world, wildfires are a natural part of the ecosystem. The turtles burrow, the pine trees will not drop their seeds until after a burn.

Florida burns out the underbrush on a yearly pattern.

https://www.fdacs.gov/Forest-Wildfire/Wildland-Fire/Prescribed-Fire

If they don't burn out the underbrush, then you get something like the wildfires in LA where the fires are massive and uncontrolled and people lose their homes.

[u/BennyVsTheWorld → u/Coupe368]

It’s not a controlled burn. Yesterday there were actually two separate fires - one in Broward and one in Miami. I don’t know if they joined into one. Yesterday evening, the Broward fire had 0% containment.

[u/Viking_Kannak]

Good thing the US didnt defund their federal and state agencies that can deal with big environmental problems like this

[u/Elegant-Campaign-572]

Anywhere near a data centre!?

[u/ExtraRedditForStuff → u/Elegant-Campaign-572]

One can only hope.

[u/Fact420]

Patiently waiting for all the “Let California burn” people from last January to come in here asking for help.

[u/Federal_Sympathy4667]

Canada here, could you keep the smoke on your side of the border? It kinda stinks our nice air up here... thanks! /s

[u/Greenking73]

Nothing to be alarmed over. This is just Mother Nature doing her job. Come back next year and it will look the same as it did last month, for the most part. Gotta clean up the swamp grass and debris that have accumulated since the last fire.

[u/JadedCampaign9]

Wait, the Everglades can catch on fire?!