The fire now engulfs 3,600 acres and is only 20 percent contained. Red flag warnings remain in place.

"It will not take much to get a brush or grass fire to flare up and rapidly spread," one meteorologist told Newsweek.

A massive fire in the Big Cypress National Preserve near Alligator Alley on I-75 in Collier County, Florida has burned 25,000 acres.

A massive fire continued burning in Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve near Alligator Alley, an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 75 between Naples and Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday, Feb 25, and the U ...