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DELAND -- Here's what is on tap for the Volusia Magazine TV show:
* COUNTY NEWS, INFO SEGMENTS, FROM THE COUNCIL FLOOR;
* DISCUSSION GUEST(S) -- Volusia County Deputy Fire Chief Kathy Weaver provides holiday fire safety information

It seems every holiday season there’s the tragic story about a family losing everything they have to a house fire caused by faulty wiring, an unattended candle or a Christmas tree too close to the fireplace. During the holidays, people can become preoccupied and careless.

DELAND -- Votran will not operate bus service Thanksgiving day in the greater Daytona Beach area, Southeast and West Volusia areas, Orlando Express and Connector routes. Votran will resume normal service Friday.

For further information, please call (386) 761-7700 in Daytona Beach, (386) 943-7033 in West Volusia or (386) 424-6800 in Southeast Volusia.

Visit Votran online at www.votran.org.

Editor's Note: The following is from a NASA press release.

CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA launched a social media experience at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida that quickly turned into an unprecedented world-wide event as more than 100 Twitter users got a unique look inside America's space program and front row seats to the Nov. 16 liftoff of the space shuttle Atlantis.

DELAND -- An 80-year-old DeLand man who was reported missing on Friday was found safe in South Carolina.

Volusia County Sheriff's Office deputies learned through his relatives early Monday mornoing that William Henry McKnight was in Regional Medical Center, Orangeburg S.C.

The local law enforcement there had discovered McKnight driving on a set of railroad tracks and acting confused. He was not physically harmed, and he is expected to remain at the hospital until family members can pick him up, Volusia County Sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught said.

DELAND -- The eastbound lanes of Interstate 4 at State Road 44 were closed to traffic late Friday night and early into this morning because of a major accident with injuries, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

No fatalities were reported in the 10 p.m. accident, the FHP reported, but traffic was backed up to the St. Johns River Bridge.

That entrance ramp takes motorists to New Smyrna Beach on S.R. 44.

Courtesy photo. Kaleb Carreli, 5, of DeLeon Springs, was found in woods near his home, nearly six hours after he was reported missing, the Sheriff's Office said.

DELEON SPRINGS -- After a more than six-hour search, Kaleb Carreli of DeLeon Springs was located safe-n-sound in a heavily-wooded area of DeLeon Springs just before midnight.

PIERSON -- A 71-year-old Pierson man was among a dozen people in eight counties charged with illegally purchasing and poessessing live foxes and coyotes, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

Charles Jones of Person and 11 others in Bay, Calhoun, Clay, Columbia, Gilchrist and Okaloosa counties were nabbed Tuesday night, concluding a 10-month investigation.

Courtesy photo. Kaleb Careli, 5, was reported missing this afternoon from his back yard in DeLon Springs.

DELEON SPRINGS -- The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is looking for a missing 5-year-old DeLeon Springs boy who was last seen in the back yard of his home.

Kaleb Carreli is a white male about 45 inches tall and weighing 52 pounds. He has blue eyes, blond hair and a star-shaped scar over his left eyebrow.

PORT ORANGE -- A precautionary water boil notice is in effect for 1,437 homes in the Spruce Creek Fly-in subdivision west of Port Orange.

The boil water notice was issued after water treatment plant operators detected a low chlorine residual. The problem has been corrected, Volusia County officials said.

Residents are being notified through an internal notification system and signs at the entrances and in the subdivision.

VOLUSIA COUNTY FIRE SERVICES ISSUES BURN BAN

DELAND -- Due to the dry conditions throughout the county, Volusia County Fire Services has issued an outdoor burn ban for the county’s
unincorporated area effective 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 21. The ban also applies to Oak Hill, Lake Helen and Pierson.