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The 1998 Florida wildfires, sometimes referred to as the Florida Firestorm, was a wildfire event involving several thousand separate woodland and mixed urban-rural wildfires which wrought severe damage during the summer months of 1998. Wildfires sparked mainly by lightning threatened to converge into single, vast blazes, crossed natural ...
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), formerly called the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is a 501(c)(3) [1] non-profit civil liberties group founded in 1999 with the mission of protecting freedom of speech on college campuses in the United States.
The 2024 Florida wildfire season was series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2 June 2024, over 1,100 fires were reported, burning over 24,000 acres of land, according to the Florida Forest Service .
A South Florida fire rescue paramedic pleaded not guilty Tuesday after the car he was driving crashed in Southwest Miami-Dade last month, killing an elderly woman and severely injuring his 3-year ...
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The wildfire then grew to 8,400 acres (13.1 sq mi) by May 7, [17] and 10,000 acres (16 sq mi) by the next day, as did the containment of the fire, which increased to 5%. [18] Evacuation plans were then implemented on May 11 in Ochopee as the wildfire grew to more than 11,000 acres (17 sq mi), also being 20% contained.
The office was abolished following the Florida Cabinet reforms of 1998 which took effect in 2003. [1] A statewide office, with a seat in the Cabinet, the official handled the duties of the State Treasurer, Commissioner of Insurance, and Fire Marshal. These duties included payroll, pensions, tax collection, state finances, insurance regulation ...
The Lime Street fire refers to both a deadly 1990 conflagration at a residence in Jacksonville, Florida, and to the resultant investigation that restaged a similar fire in a nearby building. Six people, including two women (one who was pregnant) and four young children, were trapped inside the house and killed.