Wildland firefighters from more than a dozen agencies used brush trucks and tractors as well as a pair of Blackhawk helicopters and strike teams to get the upper hand on a wildfire burning for several days in the Picayune Strand State Forest just east of Naples.
While the wildfire grew to 1,733 acres Tuesday evening, containment also increased from 40 to 60 percent, the Florida Forest Service said.
“We’re actively fighting the fire with every resource we possibly can get. It’s been a tough fight,” Jesse Lavender, a Florida Forest Service spokesman, said. “We have multiple crews fighting both sides of the fire as we speak. It’s in a really dry area.”…