TAMPA - In November, Dan Lombard and Ernest Garcia Sr. were fans at a Jesuit High School football game. They didn't know each other and had no idea their lives were about to intersect in a powerful way. As Lombard, a driver engineer for the Tampa Fire Department, left the game, he saw a car run through a stop sign. Lombard, off duty, followed the car as it pulled off to the side of the road. That's when Lombard saw that the driver, Garcia, was having a seizure. ...more

January 17, 2008

Three search-and-rescue dogs from the Tampa Bay area went to Jacksonville on Thursday to help rescuers searching a collapsed parking garage. ...more

December 7, 2007

TAMPA - The Bay area sent special jaws of life – three search-and-rescue dogs – to Jacksonville this morning to assist rescuers searching a collapsed parking garage for someone who might be trapped there. ...more

December 6, 2007

Where there's smoke, there's fire – and longtime firefighter Timothy Fussell. A mainstay for 32 years, Fussell retired Sept. 29 as a battalion chief for the Pasco County Emergency Services Department. County commissioners recently honored him with a resolution. ...more

October 27, 2007

TAMPA - A firefighter who helped an ill colleague, a paramedic who tended to an injured person while off-duty, a longtime veteran and a familiar face to the area's media are among those nominated as Tampa Fire Rescue's Firefighter of the Year. ...more

October 11, 2007