Now on fox 35 news. Battling a brush fire thats already damaged several homes. The latest from Brevard County. Comes to orlando. Temperatures are on the increase, but looks like a change on the way for the weekend with a cold front. Forecast. Right now on fox 35 news at 10 00. Developing tonight, fire crews in Brevard County get the upper hand on that raging wildfire in palm bay. The flames damaged four homes and burned 45 acres of land. Sky fox was above the flames and the smoke this afternoon. You can see the smoke rising above the trees. This map shows the area were referring to in palm bay west of i95. Reporter the fire started with a structure fire and quickly spread to vegetation in the area. Fire crews spent hours putting out flames very close to this neighborhood. Terry shaw lost his rental property. I was at home, a friend of mine called me and asked if i heard what was going on here and i said, no, and she said, well, your house burnt down. Reporter four homes in all were dam
We will have a full report of commemorative i16 in just moments. Thank you so much for joining us, i am michelle imperato. Jason i m jason guy. We are looking ahead to storms in the south end if the system could mean something for us. Very quiet at Daytona Beach. Busy there is by week rolls on. Let s get over to amy and she is a look at your forecast. Do we any rain coming our way . Amy in the weekend. Not today or tomorrow. The red light hold off until sunday. The front bringing the rain has slowed down a little bit. With a mix of sun and clouds today. More sunshine and which means temperatures will be about two or three degrees warmer this afternoon that but we did yesterday. We were in the lower 80 s on wednesday and now on thursday, we will be in the mid80 s. 40 minutes or so it from sunrise and of course the temperatures start to climb quickly once that happens. Right now we are in the lower to middle 60 s and most of Central Florida. It is 65 and oviedo, ocoee at 66 and poinciana
This map shows the area were referring to in palm bay west of i95. Heres kelly joyce. Reporter the fire started with a structure fire and quickly spread to vegetation in the area. Fire crews spent hours putting out flames very close to this neighborhood. Terry shaw lost his rental property. I was at home, a friend of mine called me and asked if i heard what was going on here and i said, no, and she said, well, your house burnt down. Reporter four homes in all were damaged. Dozens of firefighters and utility workers surrounded the area. No one was evacuated, but they came close to it. With the wind gusts, the dry vegetation and low humidity levels it was prime for a wildfire. Reporter fire crews worked about 45 acres burned throughout the afternoon. According to the officials in the area the winds didnt help. Firefighters managed to have the fire 95 contained by 5 00ment as for terry shaw he says it wasnt a good day, but it could have been much worse. Fire crews will monitor the area th
San felipo drive and cogan drive. Photojournalist dave sprung is joining us now. Its jumping around quite a bit. Reporter thats right. Its jumped 10 blocks. In palm bay, they have houses and woods, houses and woods. And thats basically what the fire has done. Its jumped over houses but caught woods on fire. I found one home that had holes in the roof from the flames. The home will need work before people can live in it again. I did find a couple of spaces where the fire is still burning, not as big as it was before. Most of whats left is ground smolder. In the area here and to the right theres another area where it looks like they put the flames out and cutting fire lines around that. It looks like its got a good handle on this fire but its caused a lot of damage. Matt thank you. Now to new details on a local substitute teacher arrested on the job. This is news 6 at 5 00, getting results. Im Sachelle Saunders in for lisa bell. Matt im matt austin. At 4 00, we told you the sub is accuse
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