Firefighters continued to battle brush fires around the Tampa Bay area Sunday, while others have been contained. ...more

March 22, 2009

A wildfire that threatened a community in Holiday was just one of several that firefighters had to contend with Wednesday. ...more

February 19, 2009

LAKE PLACID — On Henscratch Road, a column of smoke moved from east to west, with the wind. Eight days later, the fire is still simmering. Two blocks away, behind Bert Dawson's mobile home on Grand Concourse Drive, there's more smoke. "Yesterday, the wind started it up again," said Dawson, who paused while building a deck between his home and his mother's travel trailer. "Little fires. I got on my 4-wheeler and went back there." Behind his ranchette, there's a hammock of pine and hardwood trees, and the underbrush is as thick as it gets in Florida. Somewhere — Dawson thinks it was east of his home — the Henscratch fire started on Feb. 11. ...more

February 19, 2008

SEBRING – Wind gusts have once again stirred the brush fire today that threatened houses Monday afternoon and evening. ...more

February 12, 2008

TAMPA – Firefighters say a fire burning at a Port of Tampa business is still going strong, sending a plume of smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the air. ...more

November 30, 2007