The number of wildfires burning in Florida is climbing again. After a brief downward trend earlier in the week, the numbers have been climbing. Friday morning, April 4, there were 49 fires, up from 44 ...

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

MULBERRY, Fla. (CBS12) — A 22-year-old man traveling in a Mercedes Benz is calling the Polk County Jail home after he pointed a gun at a truck during a road rage incident. In March, a work truck ...

but there are six county-enacted burn bans in central and southwest Florida, according to the Florida Forest Service’s burn ...