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A language barrier between a Spanish-speaking detainee and an English-speaking officer turned a request for the bathroom into a month of solitary confinement at the Baker County Detention Center.

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Scott Kirby and his wife, Dana, grew up in South Florida, graduated from the University of Florida, and built their careers in the state before moving to Maui more than 20 years ago. They are among the Lahaina residents struggling to rebuild after the devastating wildfires.

An aerial tour of the region in north-central Florida where Idalia made landfall early Wednesday and nearby communities revealed the devastating scale of destruction spanning more than 100 miles across Florida’s Big Bend.

The lengthy process of cleaning up started almost as soon as the rain and winds from Hurricane Idalia subsided Wednesday.

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