Jerold Dale Hager was a few blocks from dropping off his grandsons. They had stopped to grab milkshakes at Arby's after a Boy Scouts meeting Monday night, and Hager was behind the wheel of his Ford pickup, heading west on Busch Boulevard. ...more

October 21, 2009

An ambulance driver lost control of his vehicle Monday night and crashed into a pickup truck on Busch Boulevard, Tampa police said, closing the road in both directions for hours. ...more

October 20, 2009

Fire Stations Set LAND O' LAKES - Shiny red trucks need shiny new buildings to park in and they're getting them in some parts of the county. ...more

January 1, 2009

A person severely injured in a mobile home fire this morning has been identified as a woman in her 60s, and if she lives, she can thank an ambulance crew that arrived before firefighters, Largo fire officials say. ...more

November 26, 2008

After numerous delays, the first fire station in the Trinity area is taking shape on Trinity Boulevard about a quarter mile east of State Road 54. ...more

June 29, 2008

TRINITY - Where's the fire? After numerous delays, the first fire station in the Trinity area is taking shape on Trinity Boulevard about a quarter mile east of S.R. 54. Crews could complete the project by spring 2009, county officials report. ...more

June 25, 2008

LAND O' LAKES – A man died early this morning, hours after being struck by a private ambulance on State Road 52 about 10 p.m. Thursday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The 47-year-old man, whose name has not been released pending notification of family, was walking west on the shoulder of S.R. 52 at Ehren Cutoff, just west of San Antonio, when the ambulance's mirror struck him, Sgt. Steve Gaskins said. ...more

June 20, 2008

Chaos reigned on Halloween night after a car drove through a dead end and crashed into a Bradenton retention pond. ...more

December 31, 2007

Janet Jorgensen had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer. Dianne Trent liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat with her neighbor over tea. And nearly 40 years after they went to high school with him, friends remember Gary Joy as a quiet and shy gentleman. ...more

December 10, 2007

LAKE PLACID — At 8 a.m. last Thursday, paramedic John Dyess and EMT Todd Kreulen parked a Highlands County EMS ambulance at the Tomoka Heights station, unlocked the door and staffed this station for the first time since mid-April. That put county EMS back to its full daily staffing level of eight ambulances, including two in the Lake Placid area. About four hours later, Dyess and Kreulen responded to their first 911 call from the Tomoka station, a former model home just north of Florida Hospital on U.S. 27 South. They reached a patient in respiratory distress in less than five minutes, well within EMS's goal of a six-minute average response time. Steve Coltharp, acting EMS director, said reopening the Tomoka station improves response times not only in the Lake Placid area but also throughout the county. The county's recent hiring of two paramedics and three EMTs solved a manpower shortage that forced EMS to reduce its ambulance crews from eight to seven. ...more

November 13, 2007