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New Smyrna Beach Fire Dept. contains 5-acre brush fire near Sugar Mill

Photo for Headline Surfer / A New Smyrna Beach Fire Deparment unit puts out hot spots from a 5-acre brush fire Friday in the 3000 block of Pioneer Trail. No homes from the nearby Sugar Mill gated community were impacted by the fire, but nearby residents can expect to see and smell lingering spoke through the weekend, NSBFD officials said.

 

By Henry Frederick
Headline Surfer
 
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A 5-acre brush fire near the Sugar Mill Country Club gated community was contained Friday by the New Smyrna Beach Fire Department.
 
The fire was found in a wooded area around the 3000 block of Pioneer Trail. 
 

John Cooper, first to hold track posts as president at Indianapolis & later Daytona, has died

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Photo for Headline Surfer / John Cooper is shown in this vintage image from 1985 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

By Henry Frederick
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- John Cooper, the first man to serve as president of Indianapolis Motor Speedway and later Daytona International Speedway who died Wednesday in Indianapolis at the age of 83, was remembered by motorsports leaders of today.

Coast Guard: Swimmer missing in choppy waters off New Smyrna Beach

By Henry Frederick
Headline Surfer

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- A Port Orange businessman charged last month with fraud went or a swim Sunday night in the choppy waters near the South Jetty, but when he didn't return home, an exhaustive search by air sea got under way, but he has not turned up dead or alive since then, the Coast Guard said.

Hundreds stung by jellyfish along the World's Most Famous Beach in Daytona

By Henry Frederick
Headline Surfer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- When the purple flags are being flown along the World's Most Famous Beach, they're not for a Barney the dinosaur birthday party. The flags are a warning to be alert about jellyfish -- those nearly invisible critters that blend in with the soapy surf and sometimes wash up along the shore.

 

 

Tattoo You: Daytona Beach Shores babe marches to beat of different drummer

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. -- So who is this tattooed-mystery babe spotted walking along the hard sands of Daytona Beach Shores who caught the camera lens of our intrepid photographer friend who shoots just about everything interesting he sees along the Word's Most Famous beach and beyond?