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Georgia fire crosses into Florida


Sanderson, Florida - Authorities have evacuated about 200 homes in north Florida as two fires totaling 130,000 acres continue to rage on the Georgia-Florida border. Florida officials warn that they might soon need help if the blazes grow out of control.

Florida is already under a fire-induced state of emergency, with high wind and tinder-dry conditions spawning some 240 blazes over 50,000 acres. So far no injuries have been reported, and only a handful of houses have been destroyed or damaged.

A 30,000-acre fire in southern Georgia has crossed the Florida border.

Driving in that fire is difficult and cars on a north Florida highway need their headlights to cut through the dense white smoke.

In Taylor County, 96-year-old Clyde Johns evacuated at about noon today. He says he hopes the house he built himself is saved.

idk if anyone's heard about this, but we walked outside this morning thinking that there was just a hell of a lot of fog, within minutes we realized that it was actually smoke. Last week the air here was affected by the Georgia fires, but it wasn't that bad. Today made L.A. look like the inside of an oxygen tank. Ash is falling from the sky like a light misty rain and it's so hard to breathe that unless you have one of those air filter masks on, you have to pull your shirt collar up over your face. idk if you can tell from this pic that I took earlier in the car on our way home from picking up the kids, but the air here is so heavy and dirty right now that it's just disgusting. Like remember that one volcano movie with Tommy Lee Jones where at the end everyone is covered in ash an stuff? The cars out in my parking lot are covered in so much grey dust that it looks like a ghost town.

As much as I hate Florida, its skies are normally a bright cornflower type blue during the time this pic was taken, not this sick dirty dishwater color.

Captain Obvious

wildfires are really bad. especialy if they are man started.

wildfires though can be good for vegetation. the natural ones anyways.

I don't have anything actually productive to add.
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Batist - The Frenchy formerly known as Majinbuu -

... and Knight of Cydonia. die. just die. die in a hellpit of fire from satan's ass.

Daisy

I woke up unable to breathe, like I had smoked 3 packs of cigarettes in one night or something. My kids have been coughing all night sounding like little old men.

Tell me, why does Florida blow so much? Seriously.

I haven't been here long enough to tell you exactly, but I do know that orlando has the dumbest drivers on the planet. Old people + The Stupidest College Kids Of All Time = the worst mix to drive with on the road.

We haven't even touched the working dads, soccer moms and other stereo types that are rampant around these parts.

At least the weather is consistent and nice so far.