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Officials with the Florida Forest Service’s Blackwater Forestry Center are issuing words of caution as wildland firefighters in Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties have responded to nine wildfires in the past week.

A Valentine’s Day fire completely destroyed a mobile home, according to a Holley-Navarre Fire District press release.

The call came in just after 5 a.m. of a structure fire on the southside of U.S. Highway 98 near Walmart. The call was actually in the 2000 block of Blankenship Road.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will hold a hybrid public hearing concerning the I-10 Widening Project Development and Environment (PD&E) Studies from west of State Road (S.R.) 281 (Avalon Boulevard) to west of County Road (C.R.) 189 (Log Lake Road) and from west of C.R. 189 (Log Lake Road) to east of S.R. 85 (Ferdon Boulevard) in Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties Tuesday, March 15.

Santa Rosa County was awarded a $800,000 Resilient Florida Grant for the Floridatown Living Shoreline project.

The Santa Rosa Commissioners selected Caldwell Associates Architects Inc. to design the District One Medical Office and moved their contract approval to Thursday morning’s meeting.

Navarre Beach is filled with beach house rentals, but very few can hold 30 people comfortably. Some families find ways around that by inflating air mattresses and combining sleeping arrangements.

No Shoes Beach House, which was recently completed, is a new option for large groups with nine bedrooms.

A Milton tow truck driver is being hailed as “Our Hero – Our Angel” by the mayor of Fort Walton Beach’s family after saving him and his wife from a burning vehicle.

Mayor Dick Rynearson and his wife, Janey, were heading to a gas station off Interstate 10 near Live Oak Jan. 26 when their car was t-boned and burst into flames.

On Feb. 1, Gulf Islands National Seashore started enforcing maximum recreational vehicle (RV)/trailer length and height limits for all campsites in the Fort Pickens Campground in Florida and the Davis Bayou Campground in Mississippi.

A dog saved from a shelter a year ago was attacked by a bear in the yard of her new home in Gulf Breeze.

An elaborate multi-agency investigation dubbed Operation Wolves Blanket has resulted in the arrest of 12 men on charges of child solicitation.

Over a five-day period, Walton County Sheriff’s Office conducted the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) operation to target those seeking out children for sexual activity.