LAKE PLACID — Residents lined roads in the Leisure Lakes area watching smoke cloud the sky as the first major brush fire of the year threatened about 100 acres and 80 homes. ...more

February 11, 2008

TAMPA - A three-alarm fire today at a two-story apartment building in Tampa is now under control, according to Tampa Fire Rescue. ...more

February 11, 2008

LAKE PLACID – Residents in between 80 to 90 homes on or near Henscratch Road have been asked to voluntarily evacuate their houses as firefighters from four local fire departments and one state agency battle a 100-acre blaze. ...more

February 11, 2008

A fire destroyed three cars in the parking garage of St. Joseph's Hospital today, and firefighters are trying to determine the cause. ...more

January 31, 2008

TAMPA - An electrical short sparked a fire in a Hyde Park house today, resulting in at least $75,000 in damage, Tampa Fire Rescue said. ...more

January 29, 2008

PLANT CITY - Firefighters say an electrical problem may be to blame for a small fire today at a building at Collins Street and J. Arden Mays Boulevard. ...more

January 16, 2008

Investigators are trying to determine how a mother and her two young children were overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that spread no farther than a storage room at the motel where they lived. ...more

January 16, 2008

How were a mother and her two small children overcome by a Tuesday morning fire that failed to spread beyond a storage room at the motel where they lived? ...more

January 15, 2008

Cooking material left unattended on a kitchen stove caused an early morning house fire, fire officials say. No one was hurt. ...more

January 5, 2008

TAMPA - An electrical fire in the wall of a kitchen of a south Tampa home resulted in $100,000 in damages this afternoon, Tampa Fire Rescue said. ...more

December 11, 2007