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🌱 Five-acre Palm Bay brush fire contained; Babcock Street briefly closed

Palm Bay, Florida Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Five-acre Palm Bay brush fire contained; Babcock Street briefly closed
  • Which Brevard teams — including Palm Bay — made the state playoffs?
  • Palm Bay numbing spray maker hit with FDA violations and recall

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Partly sunny, breezy and nice, with a high of 79 and low of 66 degrees.
  • Thursday: A shower in the p.m.; breezy, temps: high: 79, low: 63.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 82 and low of 66 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Brush Fire Brought Under Control in Palm Bay (floridatoday.com) — A five-acre brush fire behind the Habitat for Humanity store in Palm Bay was brought under control Tuesday evening, with no property damage reported. Palm Bay Fire Rescue, aided by a BCSO helicopter, briefly closed part of Babcock Street while crews doused hot spots and began investigating the cause.
   

2. Seven Brevard baseball teams ready to start FHSAA regional playoffs (floridatoday.com) — Palm Bay baseball fans can see how Palm Bay High stacked up in a strong District 13-4A field as seven Brevard teams head into the FHSAA regional playoffs. The article lays out every local team’s seed, matchups, and district records, so you can follow rivals like Merritt Island, Eau Gallie, Melbourne, and Viera through a packed late-April schedule.
   

3. Pro Numb Tattoo Numbing Spray, LLC - 722589 - 04/14/2026 (fda.gov) — A Palm Bay drug manufacturer has been cited by the FDA for serious manufacturing and labeling violations involving its Pro Numb tattoo numbing sprays and related products. Federal regulators say the Dixie Highway facility failed to properly test ingredients and finished drugs, validate processes, or run a reliable quality system, and the company has committed to recalling all in-date Pro Numb sprays from the U.S. market.
   

4. Florida Executes 58-Year-Old Man Who Bludgeoned and Set Next-Door Neighbor on Fire in 1990 (lawyerherald.com) — A man convicted of killing his neighbor inside her Palm Bay home in 1990 has been executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison. The case, which involved a deadly burglary and arson, spent decades on appeal before the death sentence was carried out, as Florida continues an unusually rapid pace of executions statewide.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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