Eighteen families are temporarily staying at a local hotel and two other families are staying with friends and family following a fire this weekend at the Windermere Lakes Apartment complex. ...more

December 15, 2008

Hillsborough County firefighters extinguished a three-alarm fire shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday at 9474 Windermere Lake Drive near Riverview, authorities said. ...more

December 13, 2008

In a few days, the American flag will be raised in front of Pasco County's newest fire station. That's how you'll know Station 16 is open for business. ...more

December 11, 2008

TAMPA Hillsborough County firefighters were busy this morning, first responding to what had been reported as a hot-air-balloon collision in Lutz that turned out to be nothing and then to alarms in northwest and north Hillsborough County on unrelated calls. Firefighters did find smoke coming out of a duplex at 5910 Mar Jo Drive in North Tampa this morning. They determined that the smoke was coming from a burning pot on the stove. The resident, whose name was not released, was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. ...more

November 28, 2008

The very concept of a "crash tax" seemed repugnant a year ago. Then Amendment 1 passed, and city officials watched their tax revenues shrink by $400,000 this year. ...more

November 12, 2008

1:49 p.m.: Pepe Perez has been campaigning at polls for the past 15 years and said this is the busiest Election Day he has seen. Perez was handing out endorsement information at a Carrollwood polling site on behalf of the Hillsborough Fire Action Commitee, a group that campaigns on behalf of Hillsborough County firefighters. ...more

November 4, 2008

I may have come up with the perfect solution to the question "Should the Spring Hill Fire Rescue district become independent or merge with the county?" This is so simple; I am amazed that no one has ever thought of this before. ...more

October 16, 2008

Pasco County firefighters are battling a house fire in progress at 5011 Beau Road. It didn't appear anyone was in the residence, according to eyewitness accounts. No official reports, however, are yet available. ...more

September 29, 2008

Save Taxes; Vote 'No' I'm just one of the individuals here in Spring Hill who thinks we can save taxes by having one county fire department. It just makes good tax sense. I don't have the money to buy this election like the firefighters' union is trying to do or using scare tactics. ...more

September 24, 2008

It wasn't a person drowning in the driver's seat of a car at the bottom of a retention pond. It was a dummy strapped into a contraption made of PVC pipe and construction mesh at the bottom of a swimming pool. ...more

August 27, 2008