EAST LAKE - For about eight hours Wednesday, a prescribed, or controlled, burn blazed at Brooker Creek Preserve near Ridgemoor.
The 32-acre burn, which was managed by a team of 12, burned palmettos and pine trees, wire grass, broadleaf plants, wax myrtles and juvenile oaks, said Keith Thompson, environmental land manager for Pinellas County's division of land management. The burns eliminate vegetation that is highly flammable and could feed wildfires if allowed to accumulate.
