Every month firefighters from six North Pinellas fire departments pose a frightening scenario and then practice rescuing people and pets from the mock danger. ...more

August 30, 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

It wasn't a person drowning in the driver's seat of a car at the bottom of 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 26, 2008

The City Council has given Tampa firefighters most of the pay increase they were seeking. ...more

August 22, 2008

As Fay's winds fanned the flames and tried to blow down the walls, a doublewide manufactured home was destroyed by fire Tuesday, at 617 Serene Lane in Lorida. ...more

August 21, 2008

City Commission members want a status report on staffing levels at the Fire Department. ...more

August 16, 2008

Tarpon Springs City Commission members want a status report on staffing levels at the Fire Department. At their meeting Tuesday night commissioners asked interim City Manager Mark LeCouris to have a report responding to complaints that Fire Department personnel are under stress as a result of understaffing at the department by their next meeting, Aug. 19. ...more

August 14, 2008

A Wal-Mart Supercenter was evacuated for about two hours Saturday after a passerby smelled gas leaking from a natural gas meter outside the building. ...more

August 10, 2008

A family of six was displaced Wednesday night when their double-wide mobile home at 5810 State Road 66, west of Payne Road, in Sebring, was destroyed by a fire. ...more

July 31, 2008

A recent report on the county fire department could translate into savings on your homeowner's insurance. ...more

July 12, 2008