(May, 12 2008) – Brush fires have forced residents to flee more than 500 homes in central Florida and closed a major interstate.
Authorities say a fire in Volusia County has burned between 500 and 600 acres and caused road closures and home evacuations.
About 400 homes near Daytona Beach are under a mandatory evacuation order and 200 more homes are under a voluntary order.
A fire near Cocoa has burned more than 100 acres and forced evacuations of about 100 to 200 homes, according to officials in Brevard County.
Heavy smoke from another fire in Malabar forced authorities to close part of Interstate 95, the major East Coast corridor.
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