Florida Forest Service units were near Alligator Alcatraz Sunday fighting a 41-acre wildfire that started Saturday.
The blaze was being identified as the Jetport fire and located near the detention facility in eastern Collier County.
The forty-one-acre wildfire was listed by the Florida Forest Service as 50-percent contained as of 4:15 Saturday evening.
A spokesman for the Forest Service said the fire poses no threats to any structures.
A witness to the firefighting efforts, Justin Cunningham, said there were three different airplanes dropping the pink fire retardant on the fire.
"They had that big C-17 ... and then a smaller one," he said. The Chokoloskee native said he saw a bunch of trees burning on Saturday but it looked to him as if the Florida Forest crews had contained the fire and were near finished.
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