The Progress Village-Palm River communities will soon get an ambulance and crew to provide around-the-clock advanced life support coverage. ...more

January 22, 2009

County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life-support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 22, 2009

Hillsborough County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 21, 2009

County officials will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3 on a proposal to relocate a fire station from Springhead to Bealsville in eastern Hillsborough. The Springhead Fire Station, at 4503 Coronet Road, is in need of about $500,000 in renovations. County fire officials are pondering the possibility of instead building a station at Bealsville Park, at 5009 Nesmith Road, at a cost of about $1 million. ...more

January 21, 2009

Firefighters in Polk County extinguished a blaze that damaged a house in Lakeland and left a family of four without a home this morning. ...more

January 18, 2009

TAMPA – A woman in her mobile home got a huge surprise this morning when she heard a crash, looked out her window and saw a Ford Expedition headed straight at her. Two sport utility vehicles collided at the intersection of Waters Avenue and Ashley Street at 11:45 a.m., Tampa Fire Rescue workers said. ...more

January 16, 2009

Investigators brought in a giant crane and a barge Friday to help pull a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River, and survivors among the 155 people aboard recounted tales of horror and hailed the pilot as a hero who delivered them from certain death. ...more

January 16, 2009

Nicole Luker awoke Thursday morning to a house full of smoke. She hastily grabbed her 8-year-old daughter and two dogs, then did a quick room search to make sure her 12-year-old son had left for school. With the smoke growing thicker by the minute, Luker stepped outside into the frigid morning. ...more

January 16, 2009

Walter Farley was 93, but friends describe him as active and involved in the community. "He was really sharp. Nothing got past him," remembers Pastor Jeff Smith. ...more

January 3, 2009

A person moving into a house had left items on a stove that were ignited this morning after Progress Energy Corp. turned on the property's power, causing a fire, St. Petersburg fire officials said. The house, at 2532 Fourth Ave. S., was unoccupied at the time of the 10:20 a.m. blaze, Lt. Joel Granata of St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue said. ...more

January 2, 2009