The Coast Guard is conducting critical incident search and rescue overflights and assessing for damage Monday along the Gulf Coast Region of Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.
I-10 westbound is closed from Exit 31 to Exit 22 due to a fuel spill. A vehicle going that direction was leaking diesel fuel and I-10 is very slick from the MM 29 to the county line.
The Navarre Beach Pier remains closed Monday due to weather conditions. Weather permitting, the pier will reopen tomorrow, Tuesday at regular business hours. The pier gift shop is open and Windjammers on the Pier remains open with limited food service.
After county attorney Greg Stewart notified the Board of County Commissioners in late July that his law firm’s final day in an interim capacity would be Aug. 31, the commissioners voted to continue with their legal services until a new attorney is appointed.
Schools will be closed Monday in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa county due to “widespread lingering” impacts from Hurricane Ida. The closure affects all extracurricular activities. The area is at continued risk due to high wind gusts, tornadoes and significant flooding rain. The decision was made in conjunction with the National Weather Service in Mobile.
The National Association of Counties (NACo) appointed Santa Rosa County Commissioner Bob Cole, District 2, to serve as an energy subcommittee vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Land Use (EELU) Steering Committee.
A 33-year-old Pensacola man was killed early Friday afternoon after his motorcycle struck the back of a tow truck turning into a private driveway on U.S. Highway 90. The driver of the tow truck, a 28-year-old Pace man, was uninjured in the 12:30 p.m. accident.
The path of Hurricane Ida is not poised at this point to present significant local impacts, but Hurlburt Field officials initiated Hurricane Condition 5 today in preparation.
Data released late Friday by the Florida Department of Health showed COVID cases rising sharply in Santa Rosa County, for the first time in recent weeks eclipsing the number of new vaccinations. Last week, 2,101 new cases were recorded, while only 1,743 vaccinations were administered.
