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Fire on
El Jobean pier
The pier caught fire Friday evening,
creating a traffic hazard on SR776 and
a challenge for the fire fighters who
were positioned in three different
areas to extinguish the blaze:
From
a boat, the pier and on the Myakka
River Bridge.
No one
was hurt during the fire Friday
04/30/10 on the El Jobean fishing
pier, not even this bird who was too
young to fly away from the hazard, who
was rescued by an animal control
officer.
The pier was damaged, making it too
dangerous for folks to use, per the
story on Saturday May 1, 2010.
Charlotte County Parks and Recreation
will keep it closed for an
undetermined amount of time.
As of Friday, the cause is unknown.
Check out the sun-herald.com
site for the story that was published
on 5/1/10.
Submitted by c a Richardson
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The Myakka
River is
located in
southwestern
Florida.
It
arises near
the
Hardee-Manatee
county line
and flows
southwest and
then
southeast
through
Manatee,
Sarasota and
Charlotte
counties to
Charlotte
Harbor, an
arm of the
Gulf of
Mexico.
The
river is
68 miles
(109 km) long
and has a
drainage
basin of
235 square
miles (610 km2).
The last
twenty miles
(32 km) of
the river is
tidal and
brackish.
The Myakka
River remains
relatively
undeveloped.
A twelve-mile
(19 km)
stretch of
the river is
preserved in
Myakka River
State Park. A
thirty-four-mile
portion of
the river in
Sarasota
County
(including
all of the
park) was
designated as
a Wild and
Scenic River
in 1985 by
the Florida
Legislature.
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