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Brevard Fay Damage At $60 Million; DeBary Residents Express Outrage

Thursday, August 28, 2008 – updated: 12:39 pm EDT August 28, 2008

The latest Brevard County damage assessment from Fay is approximately 2,200 homes and businesses. Brevard County's Emergency Operations center put a dollar value on that of $60 million.

Brevard Animal Services is currently sheltering 21 horses and a pony. A four-foot alligator was taken from a neighborhood on Burnett Road in West Cocoa on Wednesday and returned to a nearby pond.


FRUSTRATED DEBARY RESIDENTS LASH OUT

It will take a long time for parts of Volusia County to dry out and frustrated, angry and flooded DeBary residents are demanding action. They want city leaders to quit.


VIDEO REPORT: Angry Residents Confront DeBary City Leaders About Floods

Reginald Glass considers himself to be a smart homeowner. He did his best to protect his property from the rising waters that have devastated his Debary neighborhood.

"All the major furniture we could get out of the house, we got it out and stored it. All the other stuff we couldn't get out, I just got some cinder blocks and put it on top of it," Glass said.

Some of his neighbors argue the city should have taken precautionary measures to prevent more than 138 homes from getting flooded after Tropical Storm Fay drenched the area

"Why did pumps sit there so long without turning it on?" one resident questions Wednesday night, as more than 100 people were at an emergency meeting at DeBary town hall to voice their frustrations.

One person asked the mayor and city manager to resign. Another threatened to take legal action

"We give the city notice. We intend to sue!" the resident yelled.

Meanwhile, four dozen pumps scattered throughout the city are pumping water into the St. Johns River 24 hours a day, but at a snail's pace. The city's storm water consultant says it could take about three weeks before the area returns to normal conditions.

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