A fire late Saturday night heavily damaged a home's garage in St. Petersburg but spared the house from all but smoke damage. ...more

January 18, 2009

A St. Petersburg sanitation worker turned into a rescuer this morning, helping two adults and a child escape from a burning house, officials said. ...more

January 17, 2009

A 27-year-old man is accused of leading deputies on a nine-minute chase through Carrollwood late Friday, crashing into three other vehicles along the way, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

January 17, 2009

A man hoping to warm up his vehicle got more heat than he expected when the van suddenly caught fire in St. Petersburg this morning. Larry Wheeler, 59, told investigators he turned on the heater in his 1989 Chevy Vandura van, and it went up in smoke. ...more

January 16, 2009

An ambulance, with a patient inside, caught fire in Clearwater this afternoon, but no one was injured. ...more

January 15, 2009

Ellen Oris called to her husband, Anais, when she saw the fire at Anthony Stephens's tiny white house, across Strong Avenue from her own. ...more

January 10, 2009

A roofing company worker using a torch started a house fire about 12:30 p.m. today, a St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue official said. ...more

January 8, 2009

A body was found inside a car that was engulfed in flames from a single-car accident in Lake Wales this morning, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reports. ...more

January 3, 2009

A person moving into a house had left items on a stove that were ignited this morning after Progress Energy Corp. turned on the property's power, causing a fire, St. Petersburg fire officials said. The house, at 2532 Fourth Ave. S., was unoccupied at the time of the 10:20 a.m. blaze, Lt. Joel Granata of St. Petersburg Fire and Rescue said. ...more

January 2, 2009

Two teenagers playing with fireworks did an estimated $3,000 damage to a Kenneth City home, authorities say. ...more

December 31, 2008