That portion of the interstate is only two lanes in each direction. The bad news was that I-4 hadn’t even slowed the fire down. That was an area north, northwest and south of the interstate near Old Grade Road, which runs over I-4 in Polk County east of Polk City. But firefighters were concentrating on three sections immediately around I-4. Some fire officials said it could be as large as 10,000 acres because it had swept northward into an area of the Green Swamp that has been burning for the last three weeks. “It’s sort of working, but it hasn’t much yet.”Įstimates of the size of the fire varied. “We’re going to catch it on the interstate, and hopefully we can stop it,” forestry Supervisor Mike Perry told Polk County emergency officials. 27 and a rural lane called Holy Cow Road. Meanwhile, the fight goes on, with bulldozers, flame-retardant chemicals and gallon after gallon of water.įor local and state firefighters, the main strategy Saturday was to lead the fire up to the interstate, then stifle it in a stretch between U.S. When the road is closed, police will be stationed at the outskirts of the fire, directing drivers to the detours. “We are at the mercy of the weather,” Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. So for the time being, officials are warning drivers away from I-4 between U.S. Rain, the thing firefighters would most like to see, is not expected. The interstate averages 150,000 cars a day through the Orlando area. Late Saturday night and into this morning, cars flooding I-4 from Walt Disney World hit the bottleneck of cars waiting to detour around the fire site.Īt about 11 p.m., the jam stretched at least 13 miles, from State Road 535 - the first Disney exit - all the way to the detour point at U.S. Local theme parks, while not affected directly by the fires, are likely to see more traffic problems today. Today, with thousands trying to get to and from NASCAR’s Daytona 500 auto race, the closing of I-4 - a traffic-clogged headache even in the best of times - could create traffic jams even worse than those Saturday, when motorists sat almost stopped for hours. Our product offerings include millions of PowerPoint templates, diagrams, animated 3D characters and more.Detouring drivers from a major interstate onto a maze of smaller roads was an exercise in utter frustration. ![]() is brought to you by CrystalGraphics, the award-winning developer and market-leading publisher of rich-media enhancement products for presentations. Then you can share it with your target audience as well as ’s millions of monthly visitors. We’ll convert it to an HTML5 slideshow that includes all the media types you’ve already added: audio, video, music, pictures, animations and transition effects. You might even have a presentation you’d like to share with others. And, best of all, it is completely free and easy to use. Whatever your area of interest, here you’ll be able to find and view presentations you’ll love and possibly download. It has millions of presentations already uploaded and available with 1,000s more being uploaded by its users every day. is a leading presentation sharing website. Several days of constant dousing to cool the muck. Till up the ground so they can see the glowing The muckĬan cook and kill roots, causing trees to topple.Īfter their leaves dry out, they kindle moreįirefighters cut fire breaks around the muck and The parched, loosely packed peat, causing Muck ignites from the burning brush above andįrom lightning strikes. Muck firesĪlso produce a lot of smoke which is a potential To control than marsh muck fires because of the ![]() ![]() Organisms, usually more than a third of the soilĬontent. Muck is soil rich inĬarbon-based compounds from dead plants and Matter) of the soil begins to burn creating hard. long-lived if the organic portion (dead plant.During drought, fires can become intense and.
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