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TEAMS FIND TRIUMPH IN MICHAEL’S WAKE SPORTS | B1 PANAMA CITY LOCAL & STATE | A3 TORRENTIAL RAINS BRING FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS Tuesday, August 20, 2019 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Out-of-hospital birth Bozeman senior dies in reports show risk Walton crash Caroline Long, 17, remembered as ‘good soul’ By Nathan Cobb GateHouse Media Florida SANTA ROSA BEACH — A Sunday night crash took the life of a 17-year-old high school student driv- Caroline Long, a 17-year-old ing home from her job at a senior at Deane Bozeman Destin restaurant. School, was killed Sunday in Caroline Long was “a good a traffi c crash. [BAY DISTRICT soul who was doing her best SCHOOLS/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO] in life,” said a coworker who was with Long moments accident last night,” Sharon before she passed away. Michalik, spokeswoman for “It started storming Bay District Schools, said shortly before we left the in an emailed statement building, and I knew she had Monday. Michalik added a long drive home,” Nicole that grief counselors were at Noriz, a 16-year-old Fort Deane Bozeman School on Walton Beach girl, wrote Monday to help struggling Monday on Facebook. “I students and faculty. just wanted her to be safe. A post on the school’s Brenden Charles Fisher’s parents, Paris Bean and Jason Fisher, feed their son through a tube in late April I don’t remember exactly Facebook page said that Long at their Sarasota home. Brenden suffered a severe brain injury during an attempted breech delivery at a what we were talking about, was a very involved student, Sarasota birthing center in January. Eight months after that ordeal, Brenden still depends on the feeding but I just remember telling serving as yearbook editor tube. [GATEHOUSE MEDIA PHOTO / THOMAS BENDER] her to be careful.” and a member of the soccer The girls worked at the team and Diamond Girls. Starbucks at the Silver Sands “As Emily Dickinson once Deaths and injuries birth outcomes. They detail that died in utero to a mother Outlet. said, ‘unable are the loved to detailed in fi rst set 11 incidents, including two who was two weeks past her Long, a Panama City resi- die, for love is immortality,’” of reports required high-profile tragedies, due date, and a lifeless baby dent, was a senior at Deane the school’s tribute said. by a new Florida law between mid-October and whose mother’s water broke Bozeman School. Accord- “Caroline will be remem- mid-July and offer another more than a day before she ing to the Florida Highway bered in our hearts forever.” By Emily Le Coz glimpse into the potential was admitted to the birthing Patrol media release, she died For Noriz, Long was the GateHouse Media dangers of delivering a baby center in active labor. at about 9 p.m. while driving kind of “girl that really at home or in a freestanding All those scenarios home on U.S. Highway 98. worked for what she had,” At least six infants and one birth center. require midwives to con- Long was struck by and someone who would mother have died in planned A recent GateHouse Media sult with or transfer clients Destin’s Kassidy Nam- always have her back. out-of-hospital births with and Herald-Tribune investi- to a physician with hospital niek, 23, who was driving While the two only knew midwives since October in gation, “Failure to Deliver,” privileges, according to state on the wrong side of the each other for a couple Florida, according to new found such deliveries are regulations. road, the release said. Both months, Noriz said she’d state reports obtained by twice as likely to end in infant One midwife appeared in were pronounced dead on never forget her. GateHouse Media. death and injury as those two separate, fatal incidents. scene. The accident is under “It’s just so weird to know An additional three infants inside a hospital. And fami- Naomi Mizrachi, of Naples, investigation. that I saw her face and heard and two mothers suffered lies have little recourse when delivered a baby in April who “Bozeman faculty and her voice probably 20 min- catastrophic or potentially something goes wrong. was transferred to the hospi- staff are mourning the loss utes before she was gone,” life-threatening injuries. Among the incidents tal for breathing difficulty and of (Caroline) from a tragic car she said. The reports were the described in the new reports later removed from life support first filed with the Florida are two breech babies that from kidney failure, the report Department of Health under got stuck in the birth canal states. a 2018 law meant to track and either died or suffered adverse out-of-hospital severe brain injury; a baby See RISK, A11 10th PCB drowning sets 15-year record Community hails fl yover traffi c shift By Ed Offley Monday. Officials said two The News Herald men, a father and 23-year- old son, ventured into the By Collin Breaux Transportation shifted west- was up there.” PANAMA CITY BEACH Gulf at 1:30 a.m. At the [email protected] bound traffic from temporary Smalley said he didn’t see — The Gulf of Mexico time, single red warning @PCNHCollinB U.S. 98 to permanent U.S. any negatives with the change has now claimed its 10th flags were flying, signaling 98. On Monday, people who associated with the 23rd drowning victim this year “high hazard” to swim- BAY COUNTY — Members drove through it liked it. Street flyover project, which in Bay County, setting an mers because of the threat of the business commu- “It’s an improvement,” is intended to improve move- all-time high for swim- from wave action and rip nity along U.S. 98 said they said Dallas Smalley, who ment through intersections. ming fatalities in the past currents caused by fierce approve of the traffic shift owns Bay Cycle and Fitness. An FDOT news release 15 years. thunderstorms that passed that began Friday. “Anything they put up there Few details were avail- The Florida Department of would be better than what See TRAFFIC, A7 able about the incident See DROWNING, A7 Panama City News Herald Business........................ A9 Obituaries ......................A5 TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Want to subscribe? 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