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Ocean Drive melee prompts Miami Beach officers to fire pepper balls at crowd
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – A street melee on Ocean Drive, between Seventh and Eighth streets, prompted police officers to fire pepper balls to disperse a crowd on Thursday night in South Beach. Miami Beach Fire Rescue personnel responded to help the few who were injured. Spring breakers forced the Miami Beach Police Department to get help from other law enforcement agencies, including the Miami-Dade and Coral Gables police departments. Most of the arrests officers have made since Feb. 3 have been on the busy area of Ocean Drive, and Collins and Washington avenues, between Fifth and 16th streets. A shooting on Monday on Collins Avenue and Sixth Street left Sowe Amadu, 27, a Miami Beach resident, dead.
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Not much activity on Memorial Day weekend amid pandemic, soggy streets
"This is not a normal Memorial Day weekend," Ferrer said. But COVID-19 may have ruined any desire for people to pack the businesses around Fort Lauderdale beach in high numbers this holiday weekend. That's except for Saturday night when the weather was clear and dining in at restaurants looked like a popular choice. On Miami's South Beach, the famed Ocean Drive and surrounding streets are relatively empty of tourists. The annual Urban Beach Weekend that brings huge crowds was canceled since the city delayed re-opening their hotels and beaches until Monday, June 1.
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Guests at Shore Club evacuated because of carbon monoxide leak
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Some guests at the Shore Club South Beach were evacuated Thursday morning because of a carbon monoxide leak. Miami Beach Fire Rescue Chief Jorge Linares said nine people were taken to area hospitals to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning. Firefighters are called to a carbon monoxide leak at the Shore Club. According to a representative from the hospital, hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat decompression illness, wounds, arterial gas embolism and carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities said it appears the leak occurred in an industrial-like area of the hotel that houses pool pumps and other equipment.
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2 killed after boat slams into jetty near Government Cut
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Two people were killed late Saturday after their boat crashed into a jetty near Government Cut off the coast of Miami Beach, authorities said. A spokesperson for Miami Beach Fire Rescue said the small boat crashed around 9:30 p.m. east of South Pointe Park Pier. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews rescued a third passenger, who was seriously hurt, on the jetty. Family members identified the victims who were killed as Christopher and Elis Colgan, a married couple from Broward County. This is the same area where Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez died in 2016 in a similar boat crash.