Update: Torn American flag still flying at Jacksonville gas station

Action News Jax is following up on the story about the torn flag at a gas station on Jacksonville's Northside.

We received calls about a large flag flying over a gas station on the Northside beginning Oct. 19.

People told us it was torn during Hurricane Matthew, but the store owner refused to take it down.

The owner told Action News Jax he was having it removed, but it was still flying Oct. 24.

“I felt like as though he didn’t take us seriously. I felt he just told me something just to brush us off,” Bracy Taylor said.

Ignored and disrespected is how Bracy Taylor said he feels seeing this torn flag flying at this gas station on Dunn Avenue. Taylor reached out to Action News Jax about the flag and said he complained to the store numerous times. They told him that they would remove the flag by Thursday or Friday last week.

That was the same thing they told Action News Jax, last Wednesday. We asked again on Monday.

The manager told Action News Jax over the phone that he planned to have the flag taken down by the Friday deadline that he originally gave. But he said he never heard back from the people who promised to remove the flag.

The manager said he called the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department twice to come and get the flag. He even claimed that he ordered a new flag and is now waiting for JFRD to answer his multiple requests.

A spokesperson for the Jacksonville Fire Department said he hasn’t heard anything about this flag and said that there had only been a call to remove a torn flag at an elementary school since Hurricane Matthew.

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