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Medical treatment of a Florida manatee with life-threatening injuries was temporarily put on hold as local brush fires blocked access to the facility that could help it.

An ongoing brush fire in southern Miami-Dade County led to delays in an injured manatee getting treatment at a rehabilitation hospital, according to the group that rescued it Thursday in Marathon.