Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/horror.jpg?pictureId=1479554<p>A NASCAR plane carrying a pilot and Bruce Kennedy, M.D., the husband of ISC leader Lesa France Kennedy crashed at Sanford, Florida. Airborne staff photogarpher Nigel Cook gives the reader an overview of the crash scene.</p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/horror.2.jpg?pictureId=1479555<p>Staff photographers Chad Pilster and Peter Bauer had a short drive from the DeLand bureau to the scene of the crash at Sanford, Florida. In shifts, the photographers documented the site where a NASCAR plane carrying a pilot and Bruce Kennedy, M.D., the husband of ISC leader Lesa France Kennedy fell to earth killing both on the plane and three in their homes.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/daycare.jpg?pictureId=1479550<p>Newsrooms, especially photography departments live and breathe listening to the emergency scanner frequencies. Staff photographer Chad Pilster was dispatched to a single vehicle crash that involved a daycare van which resulted in the death of one child. East Volusia staff photographer Craig Litten staked out the school documenting the raw emotions of friends and family members of the toddlers. A subsequent investigation revealed the seat belts were modified in the van.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/lockeby.tornado.jpg?pictureId=1479553<p>Tornadoes and hurricanes are a fact of life in Florida. Daytona Beach-based staff photographer, Pam Lockeby, documented Red Cross worker distributing relief items to victims of a recent strom.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/devastation.jpg?pictureId=1479551<p>Hurricane alley is also known as Interstate 4 from Tampa to Daytona Beach. A state-wide string of tornadoes left hundreds of homes damaged or destroyed and thousands homeless. Airborne staff photographer Peter Bauer provides our readers with a bird's-eye view of the destruction while Chad Plister documents two victims shock after first light.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/devastation.2.jpg?pictureId=1479552<p>Staff photographers Chad Pilster, Pete Bauer, Roger Simms and Jessica Webb Sibley's images tell the tle of the storm that struck bothe east and west Volusia county.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/twistmasev.jpg?pictureId=1479847<p>I was the only editor in the newsroom on a quiet Christmas Day, when National Weather Service announcements warned of potential funnel clouds passing through the state. Working with a skeleton Christmas Day staff, I warned all on-duty staffers of the approaching storm, contracted with a local pilot who flew staff photographer Justin Yurkanin over the destruction over two counties. Jessica Webb Sibley was first on-scene of a tornado's direct hit at a local apartment complex at Daytona Beach.<br></p>http://www.jamesmichalowski.com/picture/twistmaswv.jpg?pictureId=1479848<p>West Volusia mobile home parks sustained direct hits of multiple tornadoes which injured dozens of residents celebrating the Christmas Day holiday as staff photographer Justin Yurkanin flies over the area.<br></p>