VERO BEACH, Fla.: Local American Red Cross volunteers responded to a house fire on 33rd Avenue in Vero Beach at approximately 1:30 a.m. today. The team of three Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid for six adults and four children. The Red Cross met the immediate and essential needs of the impacted individuals by providing lodging and food due to fire damage to the residence.

Red Cross volunteers on the scene were members of the Chapter’s Disaster Action Team, a group of specially trained volunteers who respond to the scene of a local disaster when called upon at any time of the day or night.

To make a financial donation to your local Red Cross to help people affected by house fires and other disasters here in the United States and around the world, people can click, call or text – visit www.pbtcredcross.org, call 800-833-0599, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

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VERO BEACH, Fla. – Local American Red Cross volunteers responded to a house fire on Juanita Avenue in Fort Pierce at approximately 12:30 p.m. today. The team of two Red Cross volunteers helped coordinate emergency aid for two adults and one child, age 15. The Red Cross met the immediate and essential needs of the impacted individuals by providing lodging due to fire damage to the residence.

Red Cross volunteers on the scene were members of the Chapter’s Disaster Action Team, a group of specially trained volunteers who respond to the scene of a local disaster when called upon at any time of the day or night.

To make a financial donation to your local Red Cross to help people affected by house fires and other disasters here in the United States and around the world, people can click, call or text – visit www.pbtcredcross.org, call 800-833-0599, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.

About the American Red Cross:

The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families. The Red Cross is a charitable organization — not a government agency — and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to perform its mission. For more information, please visitwww.pbtcredcross.org or join our blog at www.pbtcredcross.org/blog.

“An investigation is underway in Indian River County where police tell CBS 12 that a man`s body was found in a backyard.

Indian River County Sheriff`s officials tell CBS 12 a lawn maintenance crew found the body of a deceased male in the backyard of a Vero Beach home around 5:30 Wednesday evening. The body was found at a foreclosed home that has been vacant for years in the 4800 block of 61st Court.” -CBS12.Com

The body was badly decomposed and decapitated; I hope the maintenance crew had already eaten dinner before they found the gruesome remains.

The cops say they will treat this case as a homicide until they can rule out otherwise. You don`t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that a body that has been decapitated is most likely a murder victim.

The body was found at a foreclosed home, losing your house is a horrible ordeal and if the body hadn`t been decapitated I would have guessed that the body was the homeowner. But it`s impossible to commit suicide by chopping off your own head.

The house had been empty for a couple of years, and the medical examiner has yet to determine how long ago the victim met his untimely death.

Vero Beach is a small city with a population of about 17,000, needless to say it`s not everyday that someone discovers a decapitated corpse. If you have any information about this case please call Treasure Coast Crimestoppers at 1-800-273-TIPS

Read more: http://www.cbs12.com/articles/body-4737210-decapitated-home.html#ixzz1fxRXV66f

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“After a Vero Beach man showed his bruised left testicle to sheriff`s investigators, a woman was arrested and stands accused of grabbing her husband`s privates and refusing to let go for two minutes.

According to a report by TCPalm.com, Maryann Scott, 49, told Indian River County deputies her husband had taken a $15,000 ring he had given her and hid it.” -UPI

If a woman squeezed my privates demanding to know where I had hidden her expensive ring, I would sing like a soprano and tell her exactly where I hid it.

Maryann may be sadistic, but grabbing her husband by the family jewels is the best way to find out where he hid her jewel.

One little detail that needs to be emphasized is that Maryann was holding a knife while she was torturing her hapless husband. Hell, I would have told the evil woman not only the location of her ring, but how much money I had in my savings account, and anything else she wanted to know.

The cops took a photograph of the victim`s bruised manhood, I hope that the image doesn`t end up on the Internet, that would really be adding insult to injury.

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Judyth Piazza chats with Doug Murphy Author of Mutual Aid on The American Perspective Radio Program (Click here to listen)

While he was born in Illinois, Doug moved with his family to Vero Beach, Florida at the age of eleven.” He has worked on an ambulance in some capacity since 1973, when he joined the Indian River Volunteer Ambulance Squad, and has been a paramedic with Indian River County since 1989.” Doug is married to Marcia and between them; they have three adult children and one granddaughter.” He now lives in Sebastian, Florida with Marcia and their three dogs.”

Aside from his normal duties with the county`s fire rescue system, Doug is also the Incident Commander of Indian River County`s Special Needs Shelter.” This is a job he took over just prior to the hurricanes of 2004.” He is also a member of a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT), FL-6, which is based in Orlando.” It was with this organization that he assisted with the recovery effort in Wachula, Florida after Hurricane Charlie in 2004, Kiln, Mississippi and New Orleans after Hurricane`s Katrina and Rita in 2005.”

Mutual Aid is Doug`s second novel, the first one being Occupational Hazard.” Occupational Hazard was written as a fictionalized version of his life, with many of the stories portrayed being based on real situations Doug has experienced.” While Mutual Aid is entirely fiction, it does have basis in his professional and personal life.

As for where to find the book, below is the website for Amazon.com