Three kids playing with a lighter are blamed for setting a 20 acre brush fire near State Road 207 in Vermont Heights. As crews worked to contain the blaze a handful of nearby homes were briefly evacuated.

St. Johns County Fire and Rescue officials say the Vermont Heights fire is fully contained, but continues to burn.

"We've had units on scene throughout the night and all day today," spokesperson Jeremy Robshaw tells WOKV. He says firefighters from Jacksonville, Putnam County and the Division of Forestry are extinguishing hotspots and re-inforcing fire lines to prevent the blaze from spreading.

The so-called Carter Road fire is burning nearly 200 acres around Carter Road and County Road 214 near St. Augustine.

Robshaw says initally an 80 acre fire sparked. Firefighters quickly contained those flames, but a second fire grew out of the first and spread to nearly 100 acres.

That second fire is only 70 percent contained and within striking distance of sparking fresh evacuations.

"Once the wind gets up today we don't know what's going to happen," Robshaw says.

Hundreds of families have been forced from their homes in Daytona Beach. A 600 acre wildfire continues burning near LPGA Boulevard.

Fires are also burning near Malabar and Cocoa in Brevard County.The Florida Highway Patrol's website says that while US-1 is open in both directions, in some areas one of the lanes may be closed in each direction.

A Red Flag warning is in effect for most of Northeast and Central Florida Monday.

Forecasters expect low humidity and gusty winds to add to the fire danger.