A 5-acre wildfire sent smoke billowing over the Emerald Isles neighborhood in Sunrise Wednesday morning, prompting warnings from fire officials amid worsening drought conditions in South Florida.
The brush fire, located in a wooded area near Hiatus Road and NW 44th Street next to a lake, remained active and uncontained as of Wednesday afternoon, according to an interactive map from the Florida Forest Service. Sunrise Fire Rescue and forestry crews were on scene since early morning.
No structures have been reported damaged, and no one’s been injured as a result of the brush fire, authorities said…