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Miami City Hall at Dinner Key in Coconut Grove the city's primary administrative offices are held here source: Florida Suncoast Industries: in 2005 for the employed population 16 years and older the leading industries in the Miami area were Educational services health care and social assistance which accounted for 18% and Professional scientific and management and administrative and waste management services which accounted for 13% of the population. The Miami River in 1935 Carlos Finlay Elementary School (15.3) 66.9 4.1 Miami Herald's Silver Knight Awards 2.2% Italian As of 2010 there were 158,317 households of which 14.0% were vacant 22.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them 31.3% were married couples living together 18.1% have a female head of household with no husband present and 43.1% were non-families 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older (4.0% male and 7.3% female.) the average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.15. The Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for Miami-Dade County Florida the department serves 29 municipalities and all unincorporated areas of Miami-Dade County from 60 fire stations the Department also provides fire protection services for Miami International Airport Miami Executive Airport and Opa-locka Airport.

Humans arrived in the Florida peninsula approximately 15,000 years ago Paleo-Indians came to Florida probably following large game that included giant sloths saber-toothed cats and spectacled bears They found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted for desert conditions However 6,500 years ago climate changes brought a wetter landscape; large animals became extinct in Florida and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted and became the Archaic peoples They conformed to the environmental changes and created many tools with the various resources available During the Late Archaic period the climate became wetter again and approximately 3000 BCE the rise of water tables allowed an increase in population and cultural activity Florida Indians developed into three distinct but similar cultures that were named for the bodies of water near where they were located: Okeechobee Caloosahatchee and Glades; 3.1 Population 1 History Flood control College of Business, 5.3 Pineland The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white.