A wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades sent the smell of smoke and haze into the air across South Florida early Wednesday.

Morgan Rynor reports the National Weather Service said the smoke will continue to impact Broward County on Thursday, with some smoke also possible in portions of Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties.

Smoke from two brush fires burning in the Everglades are drifting over Fort Lauderdale and the western Broward County suburbs on Wednesday morning.

A wildfire burning in the Florida Everglades sent the smell of smoke and haze into the air across South Florida early Wednesday.

Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, hopes the judge rules to temporarily stop "Alligator Alcatraz" from expanding.

In the second of two lawsuits challenging practices at the facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” civil rights attorneys sought a preliminary injunction to ensure that detainees at the facility have confidential access to their lawyers, which they say hasn’t happened. Florida officials dispute that claim.

A federal judge issued a split decision in a lawsuit about detainees’ rights at the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in the Florida Everglades