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Before the shovels hit the ground in the late 1950s to build the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, a young Michael Cobb often soaked in the harbor’s vistas via his cousin’s boat.

Hampton fire Chief Michael McMahon said they received a call around 3 a.m. for a report of a bonfire on the beach.