Jacksonville fire still burns on Memorial Day
Sunday was slightly overcast, but it was still a good day for the beach. As we headed south on US Highway 1, we smelled smoke and saw plumes rising from the north.
By evening we heard news reports of a fire at a city composting center. The site is on Davis Creek Road, south of Florida 9A.
I talked to Lt. Mike Perry, with the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department this morning. “It’s under control,” he says. “Basically, our game plan hasn’t changed.” They plan to let the fire burn itself out.
Crews are completely surrounding the site right now. Peery says the material is too dense and the two acres that are burning are too large to remove the material. “We’ve been on it for 18 hours,” he says.
The smoke isn’t widespread right now, because of the wind direction. The smoke is going “straight up.” But Peery says the winds are supposed to “pick up” later this afternoon. There will be an increased risk of “spark fires.”
Traffic isn’t impeded in any way at present.
The fire started on Sunday about 2:15 p.m. Peery says right now, they have “no idea” how it started.
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