Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson highlighted Wednesday the Florida Forest Service’s record-breaking 2023–2024 controlled fire season as a means of preventing and lessening catastrophic wildfires in the state. The Florida Forest Service has treated 164,915 acres of state woods with controlled fire in the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, 2024, surpassing the 131,628 acres treated in the previous fiscal year. “One of my goals as Commissioner of Agriculture is to grow the state’s use of prescribed fire as an effective tool to combat the dangers of wildfires in Florida,” s…