Tampa Fire Rescue will unveil its latest training tool today, a $200,000 live-fire simulator building. ...more

September 26, 2008

Tampa Fire Rescue will unveil its latest training tool Friday – a $200,000 live-fire simulator building. The two-story metal prefabricated structure was set up at the Tampa Fire Academy, 116 S. 34th St. ...more

September 25, 2008

Supports Firefighters Regarding "City Council That Won't Say No Falls Over Self To Spend Even More" (Our Opinion, Aug. 27): ...more

September 4, 2008

Fire Chief Walter Mathews liked to stand up in his Hudson Touring Car while his driver charged to fires. The brazen act eventually cost Mathews his life in 1929. While speeding to the burning Alhambra Café on Franklin Street, one of his cars collided with an aerial truck at the corner of Cass Street and Florida Avenue. ...more

September 1, 2008

County Commissioner Ted Schrader of San Antonio held off challenger John Nicolette on Tuesday in a closely watched Republican primary marked by low voter turnout. ...more

August 27, 2008

After more than a year of negotiations, protests and a lawsuit, Tampa's firefighters won the pay increases they had been seeking. ...more

August 23, 2008

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

August 22, 2008

TAMPA - A fire this morning sparked by an electrical short in an outlet caused about $60,000 worth of damage to a house in North Tampa, firefighters said. Tampa Fire Rescue responded to the blaze at 10917 Hyacinth Ave. about 6:16 a.m. and had the flames under control within 15 minutes. No one was injured. ...more

July 1, 2008

Firefighters rescued four cats, a dog and two birds from a burning house in Old Seminole Heights on Friday. ...more

June 28, 2008

TAMPA - Firefighters rescued four cats, a dog and two birds from a burning house in Old Seminole Heights this afternoon.Rescue crews scooped the animals out of the smoke inside 1314 E. Sligh Ave. shortly after 1:22 p.m., Tampa Fire Rescue Capt. Bill Wade said. ...more

June 27, 2008