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A firefighter scurried to prepare hose lines as a house fire raged in Suntree, an unincorporated area north of Melbourne.
The following are images from some of the stories I've covered recently in my job as a breaking news reporter for Florida Today.
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I've been trying to get to a good structure fire, and this was my first in about 15 months on the job.
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The homeowners went to New York and left hurricane shutters on their house. That slowed the firefighters trying to access the home.
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The fire was contained mostly to the garage, but the rest of the home received smoke and water damage.
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A shelf cloud moved over the scene of the Suntree fire.
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This crash, near Pineda Causeway and U.S. 1 in the Palm Shores area, happened during one of the first rainstorms of the summer season. People just can't drive in rain here.
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There were reports of a gunman at Melbourne City Hall, prompting the police to set up a perimeter of assault rifle- and Glock-toting officers.
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Two people had exchanged a pellet gun in the lobby of city hall. Above is one of them. They were not charged with a crime, since the weapon wasn't a firearm. The police, however, think they planned to rob the joint.
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An elderly main lost control of his pickup and slammed into an oak tree in Grant-Valkaria. This was one of the many, tragic fatal crashes I've covered.
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This was one car crash in which no one died. Nor was the driver even injured. But she did take down some power lines.
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I actually had just been assigned a story about the power company. So this incident was pretty convenient.
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The cops said this guy was texting and not paying attention when he drove his pickup into the back of a bunch of cars waiting at a stop light in West Melbourne. One woman died. He kept texting on the back of his Ford.
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Some residents staged a counterprotest to a rally against Republican Gov. Rick Scott's budget cuts. The sprinklers came on, and counterprotesters figured it was a conspiracy.
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This woman in Melbourne Beach lost the roof to her patio during a severe thunderstorm.
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The roof ended up in the street.
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I cover many shootings. The victim in this one drove himself to the hospital, where I snapped this.
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In one Melbourne shooting, the victim was loaded into a car, then a driver tried to take him to the hospital. The driver stopped in the middle of U.S. 1 when the victim lost consciousness. The victim was pulled onto the pavement, where passing nurses stopped and performed CPR in the middle of the roadway. But he died.
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This SUV, which was stopped at a red light, was hit from behind by a truck owned by a pest-control company. The driver wasn't paying attention.
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Someone torched this West Melbourne home. I got there just after the flames had been extinguished. Unfortunately.
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This bad motorcycle wreck occurred late one evening on my route back home. A car cut the motorcycle off, and the Harley ran into the car. The rider apparently survived the initial crash but was in rough shape.
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Another motorcycle wreck in Melbourne. In this one, the police said a rider was speeding when he ran into the back of a mowing tractor that had just pulled onto U.S. 1.
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Two people died in this plane crash in Palm Bay. A back-seat passenger suffered only minor injuries. It was some sort of mechanical failure.
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