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Lifeguard fired for saving drowning man
A group of lifeguards in Hallandale Beach, Florida are out of work after one of their coworkers, 21-year-old Tomas Lopez, was fired for rescuing a drowning man outside his company’s zone of protected beach. Several of Lopez’s coworkers have resigned as a show of solidarity or have been fired for…
Florida woman admits she burned down a tree ‘older than Jesus’
A 26-year-old Floridian woman admitted to burning down one of the oldest trees in the world Tuesday afternoon. According to WFTV, Sara Barnes was arrested after admitting she set The Senator, a 3,500 year old bald cypress tree, on fire on a mid-January night in Longwood, Florida. Barnes, a regular…
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