WEST BROWARD, FLA. (WSVN) - Crews are making progress battling a wildfire that sparked earlier this week in the Big Cypress National Preserve and continues to burn north of Alligator Alley.
A traffic camera captured thick black smoke north of the highway near Mile Marker 119, just after 5 p.m., Saturday.
Flames tore through brush, grass and trees about a mile north of Interstate 75.
As of Saturday night, the fire, which broke out Tuesday, has burned more than 6,000 acres and is 40% contained.
Meteorologists said the winds out of the south are blowing the smoke away from Broward and Miami-Dade counties and toward Collier County. However, a slight change in winds after midnight could put portions of Northwest Boward in the path of some of that smoke.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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