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The Hotel Roosevelt fire on December 29, 1963, [1] was the worst fire that Jacksonville, Florida, had seen since the Great Fire of 1901, [2] and it contributed to the worst one-day death toll in the city's history: 22 people died, mostly from carbon monoxide poisoning.
In a public warning, Governor Scott bluntly told residents that "this storm will kill you," should they choose to not evacuate. [21] Road tolls were suspended in evacuating counties, [14] and later to all affected counties. [12] Gridlock on Interstate 10 out of Jacksonville hampered evacuation efforts. Approximately 17,000 people living on ...
A hurricane evacuation route (also called coastal evacuation route or evacuation route) is a highway in the United States that is a specified route for hurricane evacuation. Along the Gulf Coast , hurricane evacuation routes lead north and west for up to hundreds of miles to the safest major city.
Death toll rises as Helene batters Southeast At least 39 people have died as Helene unleashed dangerous weather conditions across multiple states in the Southeast, according to authorities and ...
As the storm turned to the north, more people were evacuated as a progressively larger area was threatened. The massive storm caused what was at the time the largest peacetime evacuation ever in the United States, with an overall number of 2.6 million people evacuating coastal areas in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. [15]
A new trial ordered by the Florida Supreme Court and guilty pleas to lesser charges mean Jason Andrew Simpson is released from prison after 20 years.
A jury voted 10-2 to spare the life of a woman convicted in Jacksonville’s notorious “buried-alive” case in 2005. Reggie and Carol Sumner were killed. Jurors spare Tiffany Cole death penalty ...
Rainfall of this magnitude can be expected to hit this area once every 500 to 1000 years. [21] Farther south, Fort Myers recorded 5.44 in (138 mm) of rain, the most recorded there in a 24 hour span. [22] The South Florida Water Management District set up five temporary pumps in Miami Beach and along the Miami River. [23]