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Thanks to an outpouring of support from members of the Navarre community, a local 11-year-old boy with a rare congenital disorder can now enjoy the beach in his custom motorized beach wheelchair.
Christian Denton, who was born with Kabuki syndrome, can t talk and uses a wheelchair to get around. He loves the beach so much that his parents, Julie and Trevor, moved to Navarre from Atlanta at the beginning of March so they could take Christian to the beach as much as possible.
But the Dentons struggled getting Christian to and from the water s edge in his homemade beach wheelchair, which was fashioned from a skim board attached to a folding chair on top of a rolling wheel frame like the kind used to pull a cooler. The couple reached out to Navarre Beach Fire Rescue Chief Danny Fureigh about their plight, and Fureigh helped make Christian s beach dreams come true.
Thanks to an outpouring of support from members of the Navarre community, a local 11-year-old boy with a rare congenital disorder can now enjoy the beach in his custom motorized beach wheelchair.
January 7, 2021
One of Gary Diamond’s last requests was a final ride atop a Molino fire engine.
Wednesday afternoon, he took his last ride atop the Molino Station’s new Engine 18 to his final resting place in the Highland Baptist Church cemetery.
Diamond was a longtime firefighter, serving during his career as the volunteer chief in Molino, a captain at Navarre Beach and fire service instructor at Pensacola State College.
“He was more than just a man. He dedicated his life to serving and protecting others,” Diamond’s son Joseph Diamond said.
Firefighters, family and friends from across the area gathered for Diamond’s funeral Wednesday at Olive Baptist Church and a graveside service at Highland Baptist. In the cemetery, a fireman’s bell tolled in his honor, “Amazing Grace” was played on a bagpipe, and an Escambia County Fire dispatcher conducted a “last call” over the county’s fire radio system.