More than 100 horses were displaced when wildfires swept through a Florida neighborhood last week.

On March 8, Lynn Switzer, operator of the Everglades Ranch, in Naples, Florida, saw a plume of smoke rising from the far side of the Picayune State Forest behind her farm.

Just after Switzer made a 911 emergency call, firefighters began battling the blaze that would grow to consume an estimated 6,000 acres; blacken the skies over Naples and Fort Myers; and close a segment of US I-75 known as Alligator Alley.

As the flames advanced, Collier County fire authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order for Switzer and other Naples barn operators in the blaze’s projected path