It's the 100th anniversary of the 1925 fire that leveled The Breakers as wind-swept embers burned a path across the island.
The brush fire that blazed through 338 acres of New Smyrna Beach and Samsula overnight was still about 80% contained as of 4 p.m., according to a New Smyrna Beach Fire Chief Shawn VanDemark.
Fire swept The Breakers in 1925, reducing the iconic hotel to rubble. But the hotel would be rebuilt as a larger and more stylish resort ...
It's currently unknown exactly how many people will be displaced, but power was affected in six units. One unit sustained ...
It can also reduce the cooling effect of water, making it less efficient at lowering the temperature of the fire ... Beach ...
The fire, which covers more ... according to Wood, who noted it was the cause of the 2009 wildfire along Highway 31 in Myrtle Beach that consumed more than 19,000 acres and destroyed 76 homes.