TAMPA - The crash last weekend of two medical helicopters in Arizona that killed six people is unlikely to happen here because of all the precautions in place, said an Aeromed manager who oversees the landing and taking off of air ambulances at Tampa General Hospital. ...more

July 2, 2008

SEBRING — Wednesday's emergency preparedness drill at the Agri-Civic Center was only practice, but almost 200 volunteers and county employees acted like the mock exercise was real. Andrew Pease, a Sun 'n' Lake Elementary School student, gave up a day of summer break to volunteer and portray a "victim," along with his mother Mary and sister Becky. The 9-year-old took the drill to heart and said he was "a little scared." "My mom tells me to not talk to strangers, but I trust the police and others," said Andrew Pease. "This is like some kind of play, but it's real, too." ...more

June 19, 2008

The orange-suited emergency workers had just pulled someone out of the rubble alive Saturday when a chilling cry reverberated around the tilting high-rises, the toppled construction cranes and the market littered with bodies: The valley was about to flood. ...more

May 18, 2008

TAMPA – Eastbound traffic is limited to two lanes on the Selmon Crosstown Expressway near downtown this morning as firefighters extracted the driver of a box truck involved in a crash near a tollbooth. ...more

May 8, 2008

Jumping into a body of water in full uniform isn't typically part of a law enforcement officer's repertoire. ...more

February 23, 2008

PINELLAS PARK - Jumping into a body of water in full uniform isn't typically part of a law enforcement officer's repertoire. ...more

February 22, 2008

4 motorcycles and 2 pickups collide in south Zephyrhills ...more

February 20, 2008

For about three years, two Pasco Fire Rescue companies worked out of Station No. 24 in Dade City, running calls from city limits to Darby, Trilby and Blanton, a huge area by anyone's calculations. ...more

January 18, 2008

TAMPA - Kirsten Simenson's fourth-grade class at FishHawk Creek Elementary School has embarked on a pet project that is just purr-fect for emergency workers who have to resuscitate smoke-filled animals. ...more

January 11, 2008

Hernando County residents continue to increase their demands for emergency workers. Calls for service to city and county first responders went up as much as 20 percent during the year, though the spike is considerably less than 2006's. ...more

January 5, 2008