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[email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 13 No. 31, May 8, 1981" (1981). Central Florida Future. 432. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/432 UCF ltBRARv MCH!VES University of · Central Florida· Volume 13 · Friday, May 8, 1981 No. 3t Brush fire burns 1800 acres near universJty by Dave Stroud Future st~ff Fire broke out near UCF Sunday~ closing two roads and damaging 1,800 acres of land. Alafaya Tr~il was closed for two hours, an~ a stretch of Highway 50 was closed five times during the fire. The fire was under control by 6 p.m. Monday. "It coul~ be restarted however by ar-sonists," said Jame; W. Dunham, Fire. Chief of the Union Park Fire Control District. He said arson was suspected as the cause of the fi.re. Four fire departments and the Florida Division of Forestry fought the blaze under Dunham's supervision. Dunham said that "Fifty men- and 14 fire-fighting vehicles" were needed.