Curfew Issued For Flooded Satellite Beach
POSTED: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
UPDATED: 7:32 pm EDT August 20,
2008
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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. -- A mandatory curfew was issued for a Fay-flooded Satellite Beach Wednesday night.The curfew runs from 8 p.m. Wednesday and runs until 6:30 p.m. Thursday.Police will be driving high-water vehicles through flooded neighborhoods.Officers will be offering help to homeowners."Just look for those blue lights and when they see a blue light coming just go outside and wave us down from their porch and we'll stop and we'll pick you up and get you to a shelter and make sure that you are safe there," Brevard County Sheriff Jack Parker said.Parker said he expects many people to leave their homes because of the flooding."We are going to be out there all through the night," Parker said. "We are basically going to be putting law enforcement resources at all of these major checkpoints and all of these neighborhoods that have the flooding so that we make sure that people are not going in there that don't belong in the neighborhoods and don't live in the neighborhoods."Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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