Two homes were destroyed and another 25 buildings damaged after a Florida man illegally burned a pile of books on Wednesday. Florida Fire Service Jacksonville tweeted that the fire began in Nassau County after a man burned a pile of paperbacks. It's illegal to burn household garbage in Florida.

Large fast moving wildfire off CR 119 in Nassau county 10 structures lost and 20 forestry bulldozers plowing firelines @FFS_Jaxpic.twitter.com/l0OunzDM0s — FL Forest Service (@FLForestService) March 22, 2017

Overnight, the wildfire grew to over 2.5 square-kilometres, forcing nearly 200 people to flee their homes. The fire was 65 per cent contained as of Thursday afternoon. “It was a fire that had a lot of fuel. The weather conditions were right for the kind of devastation that we are seeing," Billy Estep, director of emergency management in Nassau County, told The Florida Times-Union. "We are standing in front of a destroyed double-wide mobile home that is somebody’s very existence, everything to their lives," he said.

The shed ignited producing a concentrated heat source that damages the home #GarfirldRoadFirepic.twitter.com/MhoZmrb15O — FFS_Jacksonville (@FFS_Jax) March 23, 2017