Monday, May 15th, 2006 — With flames 70-feet high in some pine trees and burning embers floating in the air, it didn’t take any persuading for New Smyrna Beach resident Andrew Walsh to leave when authorities told him to evacuate last weekend. But residents should have less to worry about this year if predictions from forestry, fire and weather forecasters hold. They do not believe 2006 will be a repeat of 1998, a year that is somewhat the standard to measure how destructive wildfires are in Florida.