Category: disaster

“TIP is a simple grass roots program of neighbors helping neighbors. I often refer to it as a modern-day Good Samaritan program,” Wayne Fortin, CEO and founder of TIP, said.

In the wake of a possible hurricane, local agencies prepare and inform the public of the steps they need to take to protect themselves, their families and their homes.

Editor’s Note: This continues our Celebrate Community series on nonprofit organizations that improve Santa Rosa County residents’ quality of life.
PACE — When disaster strikes, Pace Community Emerg…

PACE — It’s official: Peyton Jones is a hero. She received an award that says so, along with a helicopter ride, for making a 9-1-1 call that saved her brother’s life.
Holton Jones, 5, has ROHHAD, w…

MILTON — Cisco’s Restaurant owner Betty Ingram is dealing with the aftermath of a devastating fire at her Caroline Street business.
“I am still trying to comprehend it,” she said. “Cisco’s has been…

MILTON — A Berryhill Elementary School third-grader is the force behind a campus-wide toy drive to benefit Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tenn., fire victims.
A 3-acre fire started Nov. 23 in the Chi…

NAVARRE — Santa Rosa Leadership Class 29, a Santa Rosa County Chamber of Commerce program, has revealed the memorial that honors 11 victims of the March 10, 2015 crash of Black Hawk UH-60 helicopter,…

MILTON –  S ix tractor plow units and multiple local fire departments are battling the Dickerson City fire between Avalon Boulevard and Garçon Point Road south of Mary Kitchens Road a ccording to Jo…

A Milton man is receiving treatment at North Okaloosa Medical Center for serious injuries after a traffic accident Monday morning.
Raymond Penton, 50, of Milton, walked toward Baker Auto Parts Stor…

Ronald Larry Jennings, 66, Milton was killed Friday night around 6:50 p.m. close to Bushnell Road.
Florida Highway Patrol reports Jennings was trying to cross Highway 90's eastbound lane and walked…