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Florida households watch as wildfires destroy their properties

PANAMA CITY, Fla. – Jackie and Rick Wilkie’s nightmare started Friday with a cloud of smoke within the distance.

Starting their afternoon with lunch on the grill at their Panama Metropolis house, Jackie was inside when Rick despatched her pictures of black smoke about 4 miles away.

That’s when she first felt one thing was off, however didn’t assume an excessive amount of of it, she stated.

“I might say in all probability not even 30, 45 minutes later, within the bed room with our son and simply every thing went black, prefer it seemed prefer it was nighttime outdoors,”

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Brokers seize dozens of pretend Chiefs Tremendous Bowl rings | KAMR

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Investigators prevented a whole bunch of counterfeit championship rings from being bought on-line, together with 80 faux Kansas Metropolis Chiefs Tremendous Bowl rings.

Footage of the seized rings present a customized Mahomes ring and a Chiefs Kingdom ring.

The brokers in Louisville, Kentucky intercepted a package deal that was shipped from China to a house in Florida final week.

Customs and Border Safety brokers stated the cargo additionally included 10 Milwaukee Bucks NBA championship rings, 30 Tampa Bay Buccaneers Tremendous Bowl rings, and 110 Atlanta Braves World Sequence rings.

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1,100 Houses Evacuated In Florida Panhandle As Firefighters Battle Fires

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Enormous wildfires within the Florida Panhandle pressured veterans in a nursing residence to evacuate Sunday alongside residents of greater than 1,000 properties in an space nonetheless recovering from a Class 5 hurricane three years in the past.

Firefighters battled the 9,000-acre (about 3,642 hectare) Bertha Swamp Street fireplace and the 841-acre (340-hectare) Adkins Avenue fireplace, which have threatened properties and compelled residents of at the least 1,100 homes in Bay County, Florida to flee over the weekend. The Adkins Avenue fireplace destroyed two constructions and broken one other 12 properties late Friday.

A fast-moving wildfire looms over homes outside of Panama City, Florida, on Friday. More than 200 firefighters and emergency workers from throughout the Florida Panhandle worked overnight into Saturday, to strengthen containment lines and protect homes.
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Backyard mentors wanted for this 12 months’s New Leaf Backyard Blitz

GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Inexperienced bay non-profit New Leaf Meals promotes entry to wholesome meals proper from your personal yard.

“Rising your personal meals, seeds you will get for very little or no cash and produce many kilos of meals,” stated communications coordinator Veronica Woodke. “Greenback for greenback what you set into it and what you set out of it it’s a no brainer.”

Yearly, the group installs 75 raised backyard beds all through the group throughout its New Leaf Backyard Blitz. When group members buy a backyard field, the non-profit will set up the backyard at their houses

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Let your grass develop somewhat extra and assist the atmosphere

If the only thing you have in your yard is a great swath of close-clipped grass, the area is not going to attract bees, moths, butterflies or any other pollinating insects.

If the one factor you’ve got in your yard is a superb swath of close-clipped grass, the realm shouldn’t be going to draw bees, moths, butterflies or every other pollinating bugs.

Judging by final week’s backyard articles and the posts on my social media accounts, there’s a variety of curiosity this time of yr in making turf lawns inexperienced and delightful. My husband shares that curiosity. I don’t. This makes for attention-grabbing, although typically loud, conversations on the backyard facilities. He desires turf fertilizer and I need an unique plant that in all probability has zero probability of surviving in

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Fireplace forces evacuation of 100s of properties in Florida Panhandle

Residents of lots of of properties within the Florida Panhandle have been evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two homes and broken 12 others, in an space that has spent the previous three years recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Michael

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — Residents of lots of of Florida Panhandle properties have been evacuated as a wildfire destroyed two homes and broken 12 others in an space that has spent years recovering from the devastation of

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