Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Firefighters continued Tuesday to battle 11 active wildfires in Northeast Florida, including a 4,100-acre conflagration burning around the Clay-Putnam County line and a 2,500-acre blaze in northwest Baker County.
Some of the fires have burned since the weekend, forcing families to evacuate homes as state and local firefighters are joined by aircraft and bulldozers to extinguish advancing flames or block the fires’ advance.
State and local officials held a news conference Tuesday to update Clay and Putnam county residents about their wildfire, formed when a fire near Crews Road in Clay County merged with another near West Tocoi in Putnam County…