Important Takeaways:

• Florida wildfires force evacuation of 1,100 homes as firefighters battle blazes
• There were at least 160 wildfires burning more than 18,500 acres across the state, the Florida Forest Service (FSS) said Monday evening. The Bertha Swamp Road fire, the largest of the blazes, was estimated at more than 14,000 acres at the time.
• The agency updated that the Bertha Swamp Road fire, which Gov. Ron DeSantis called “a big boy,” has now burned 28,109 acres alone.
• “It’s moving very quickly,” DeSantis said of the fire during a news conference in Panama City
• “We are looking at high, sustained winds of 10 to 15 miles per hour, gusting up to 20 to 25 miles per hour,” Joe Zwierzchowski, a spokesman for the Florida Forest Service, said Sunday. “So that’s going to make it a very dynamic situation.”

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