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Volusia County lifts burn ban in unincorporated areas as well as Oak Hill, Lake Helen & Pierson

DELAND, Fla. -- Volusia County Fire Services has lifted the burn ban for the county’s unincorporated areas as well as the municipalities of Oak Hill, Lake Helen and Pierson.

BREAKING NEWS: Volusia County approves $4.5 million homeless shelter 10 miles from Daytona's downtown

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- As  expected the Volusia County Council approved a 100-bed homeless facility this morning to be built 10 miles from Daytona's downtown on county land near the branch jail.

Tourism officials pleased with Hard Rock Hotel chain signing off on Daytona as the 4th brand locale in the Sunshine State

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Hard Rock Hotels in Florida / Headline SurferArtist renderings for Headline Surfer / Above is the larger display renderinger of the new hotel on Daytona's oceanfront that will carry the Hard Rock brand. In the trio of renderings below it are are the three collossal Florida Hard Rock Hotel destinations:
 
By HENRY FREDERICK
Headline Surfer

BREAKING NEWS: Stacy Allen Cantu of Daytona, other locals react to shooting of GOP congressman, several others in Alexandria, Va

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Stacy Allen Cantu of Daytona Beach points to mainstream media outlets and their focus on President Trump for sparking this morning's shooting attack in Alexandria, Va., during a baseball batting practice for Republican members of Congress that resulted in gunshot wounds to Louisiana Congressman Steve Calise and four others before the gunman was shot to death by cops.

UPDATE: At least 6 fatalities in London high-rise fire

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LONDON -- Fire swept through a high-rise apartment building in West London early Wednesday, killing at least six people and sending dozens to hospitals.

More than 200 firefighters battled the flames, which engulfed the 24-story building. “In my 29 years of being a firefighter, I have never, ever seen anything of this scale,” Dany Cotton, commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, told media outlets on scene, adding the cause of the fire was not immediately known.

Forty fire trucks were involved in fighting the blaze, and more than 20 ambulances were sent to the scene. The London Ambulance Service said it had taken at least 64 patients to six hospitals, according to the New York Times, which added 20 were in critical condition.

-- Henry Frederick, Headline Surfer, reporting from Orlando, Fla., and from wire reports