Over the weekend, North Port Fire Rescue battled a 75-acre brush fire. The blaze forced northbound lanes of I-75 to shut down as crews evacuated residents. The fire crept dangerously close to some homes, with the heat melting through fences, and even melting blinds inside one home. Fortunately, the fire is now contained, no injuries were reported, and no homes were severely damaged. Eric Yurch said his family didn't have much time to evacuate. They left in a hurry, just before the approaching flames made some roads impassable. "My 10-year-old daughter looked out the window and just saw a wall of flames," Yurch described. Yurch didn't think he'd have a home to come back to, certain his property was a goner. "No, no, absolutely not," he said. "I stayed down there for a few minutes to let the people down the street know. And I was certain that I was seeing our house burning from down there. So the fact that we had a house was just unbelievable." MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/75-acre-brush-fire-north-port-contained/67-4054e88e-6b65-49a7-981d-12288c4f4c71 ►Subscribe: https://on.wtsp.com/youtube ►Website: https://www.wtsp.com/ ►Facebook: https://facebook.com/10TampaBay ►X: https://twitter.com/10TampaBay