State of Emergency Declared in Florida amid Intense Wildfires

107 wildfires burning over 23,000 acres across Florida

Florida governor has declared a state of emergency following intense wildfires that have burned thousands of acres across the Sunshine State.

• Wildfires are currently burning in Polk, Hernando, Broward, Nassau, Pasco, Mario, Glades and Collier counties.
• Some 107 wildfires burning 23,000 acres across the state, as of April 11, the Florida Forest Service reported.
• Wildfires have consumed 68,000 acres across the state, since February, an amount is higher than the average acreage charred over the past five years.
• Wildfires have consumed 250 percent more acreage January – March than during the same period last year.

Moderate to severe drought conditions are expanding across Central and South Florida, while abnormally dry conditions exist across NE Florida, reported the U.S. Drought Monitor, with the dry conditions forecast to worsen over the coming weeks.

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Robert Bentley, Alabama Governor, Forced to Resign

Bentley has resigned following  a plea agreement on two misdemeanor charges: “failing to file a major contribution report and knowingly converting campaign contributions to personal use.” He pleaded guilty on Monday, said Ellen Brooks, a special prosecutor.

“I have decided it is time for me to step down as Alabama’s governor,” Bentley said before leaving the State Capitol, without mentioning the charges to which he had pleaded guilty, or the plea bargain with prosecutors that forced his resignation.

Last year, the sex-crazed 74-year-old admitted to cheating on his wife of 50 years, having an affair with his married chief advisor, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, who had reportedly become the “de facto governor.”

“I’m so in love with you, we are pitiful,” Bentley wrote in one love-sick text to his married doxie, together with double  heart-eyes emojis.

It’s unclear weather he would now replace Nimrata “Nikki” Haley as the US Ambassador to the UN, to prevent WWIII.

 

 

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