What started as a controlled burn in the Everglades has grown to a 6,000 acre fire. So far it is not threatening any homes.
"It came real close, it looks like it came within an acre or two acres of the road," said John Owens.
Owens is the dock master at Port of the Islands Marina, where ash was raining down on boats docked there.
"It's getting pretty scary, at night you can see the glow of the fire and in the daytime, you see just smoke, but when the embers start falling that has everyone concerned," said Owens.
The fire started as a controlled burn Friday, but an unexpected shift in the winds caused it to rage out of control.
"We got a weird wind shift that was not predicted through the modeling, when that happened it jumped the line," said Clark Ryals with the Florida Forestry Service.
Prescribed fires are used to eliminate over growth, the overgrowth fuels wildfires.
Ryals says at prescribed fires are only started when weather conditions are appropriate, no one predicted the sudden weather change.
"When we write prescribed fires, we write them for a certain prescription, a certain amount of humidity, wind direction."
The fire is 60% contained as of Tuesday night. The Highway Patrol may close Tamiami Trail in certain areas if conditions worsen.