A pair of wildfires burning in the Florida Everglades grew in size as they sent heavy plumes of smoke across southeast Florida.

Morgan Rynor reports the fire has consumed approximately 19,200 acres, roughly the size of Fort Lauderdale.

A fire burned aboard a US Navy warship anchored off Okinawa for 12 hours, injuring two sailors, a statement from the Navy’s 7th Fleet in Japan said.

The Navy declared a fire aboard the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans extinguished following a 12-hour battle Wednesday night off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. 7th Fleet officials said the fire began at 4 p.