Chapter One
NEWS ARTICLES
Read news reports of the wildfires of 1998 that ravaged Volusia and Flagler counties:
Fires turned media spotlight to region
As fires raged through Volusia and Flagler counties, reporters, photographers and TV satellite trucks from around the world converged here to cover the story.
Wind-whipped fires hit Daytona, Ormond
Just when firefighters thought they had control, surging, wind-driven wildfires roared to life this afternoon and forced thousands of people in Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach to evacuate.
A Fourth to remember: Flagler faces the flames
It looked like a large thunderhead cloud, the kind that brings rain on a normal Florida summer afternoon, but this was anything but a normal day.
Read news reports about recent local wildfires:
Fire kindles memories: Sugar Mill residents recall similar blaze last year
The pall of smoke sparked the memories of many residents in the Sugar Mill subdivision where a wildfire destroyed two homes slightly more than a year ago.
Wildfire spreads west: N. Florida-Georgia blaze continues to plague state
Fifty-foot flames exploded through a stand of trees Tuesday as a helicopter made three water drops to help cool the raging inferno.