A man in a fistfight with his stepfather in the front yard of their Manatee County home this morning set fire to the house when he realized his mother was calling 911, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

August 24, 2008

Peter Padilla's drug debts were more important to him than his brand new Cadillac Escalade. That's what the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office says in court documents charging Padilla, 49, with arson, burning to defraud an insurer, making false insurance claims, dealing in stolen property and making a false report to law enforcement. ...more

August 21, 2008

I oppose the fire tax assessment bill. I've run the New Testament Church and Mission for 32 years. In those years I have only needed to call the fire department once, which was found to be arson. ...more

August 21, 2008

Arson detectives are investigating a pre-dawn house fire that injured two men in the High Point area of Pinellas County, Largo Fire Rescue reported. ...more

August 10, 2008

A historic Ybor City building that was the focus of a preservation fight after it caught fire 20 months ago looks much the same as it did in the days immediately following the blaze. ...more

July 27, 2008

DUNEDIN – The Pinellas Sheriff's Office has released the name of the man whose body was found inside a triplex unit on Belcher Road that was on fire early Wednesday. ...more

July 11, 2008

AVON PARK — When Mark Sauls first met Brandon Ball, he was just a kid hanging around the Avon Park Firehouse. "I worked with his dad and his grand-dad here," Sauls remembered. Ironically, the Avon Park Firehouse is where both the state fire marshals got their career starts — sort of — even though they are separated in age by several years. ...more

June 29, 2008

TAMPA - A feud about a fire set at a mobile home last year led to a Lakeland man's death, Lakeland police say. ...more

June 19, 2008

LAKELAND A 36-year-old man has been arrested on charges of attempted murder and arson after a fire at a Lakeland home this morning left two people injured. ...more

June 11, 2008

Mulberry police charged a man with felony arson and felony aggravated assault, saying he used an aerosol can as a makeshift flamethrower. ...more

June 10, 2008