Their job is to put out fires. But there have been times during the past four years that members of the Seffner-Mango Volunteer Fire Rescue Association felt like lighting a fire beneath Hillsborough County officials to get their permanent fire station constructed sooner. ...more

February 7, 2009

Firefighters have been called to 5735 Gunn Highway due to a water-flow alarm. "Crews arrived to find water from the sprinkler system coming from under a rear door," a Hillsborough County Fire Rescue news release states. ...more

February 5, 2009

Six people were displaced this morning after a fire erupted at a mobile home in Plant City, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue said. ...more

February 5, 2009

A single-vehicle accident on a southbound I-75 off-ramp brought traffic to a halt for more than an hour today. ...more

January 23, 2009

Four water tender trucks, each holding up to 4,000 gallons of water, were needed to battle a fire that destroyed a home in Dover late Thursday night. ...more

January 23, 2009

County fire officials are once again recommending that an advanced life-support ambulance be moved full time from a Lutz fire station to the much poorer minority community of Progress Village. ...more

January 22, 2009

County officials will hold a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 3 on a proposal to relocate a fire station from Springhead to Bealsville in eastern Hillsborough. The Springhead Fire Station, at 4503 Coronet Road, is in need of about $500,000 in renovations. County fire officials are pondering the possibility of instead building a station at Bealsville Park, at 5009 Nesmith Road, at a cost of about $1 million. ...more

January 21, 2009

Hillsborough County Fire Rescue workers battled a two-alarm fire at an abandoned house in Ruskin early this morning. ...more

January 20, 2009

Hillsborough Avenue has reopened in both directions, hours after a fuel tanker and a small sport utility vehicle crashed this morning at the intersection with Town 'N Country Boulevard. ...more

January 19, 2009

A dog died in a mobile home fire in Seffner this morning, a fire official said. ...more

January 17, 2009