NAPLES, Fla. (WSVN) — Several students at a Collier County elementary school went home sick on Thursday after, officials said, they breathed in smoke from a massive brush fire.

Firefighters and state forestry officials are still battling the blaze that continues to burn near Naples.

Seventy-five acres of the Picayune Strand Forest have burned over the last five days. The fire is about 50 percent contained.

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