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.
Afternoon update from #LeeWilliamsRdFire in Collier County. #FLFire@FFS_cafc, @collierEM pic.twitter.com/PJ4Te9pPmp
— Florida Forest Service (@FLForestService) March 9, 2017
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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