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APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — Hillsborough County officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday for Fire Station 29 in Apollo Beach. The new building is replacing a smaller and outdated station.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — The first fire station to open in Hillsborough County in over a decade is now taking service calls in an area where response times were lagging. Fire Station 44 just ...
Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister is forgoing plans to hire 59 new deputies, and the county won’t be building new fire stations in 2022 despite a backlog of two dozen needed stations ...
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLA - The Hillsborough County Commission decided to move forward with finding funding to construct more fire stations or to expand the current ones in the county. The money ...
TAMPA — Hillsborough County needs 25 new fire stations in the next 25 years to keep up with the thousands of people moving here each year, Fire Rescue Chief Dennis Jones told county ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Firefighters at stations in mandatory evacuation zones in Hillsborough County are relocating after they close their stations ahead of Hurricane Milton's landfall. Hillsborough ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Hillsborough County Fire Rescue will close all fire stations in evacuation zones A and B ahead of Hurricane Milton. The fire stations in these evacuation zones will close at ...
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue celebrated the grand opening of Fire Station 32 on Monday morning. The new fire station is located just off Hillsborough Avenue and conveniently located near ...
Only two fire stations in all of Hillsborough County are still using volunteer staff firefighters, and that ends at midnight on Dec. 31 as paid staff replaces the remaining volunteers. Source ...
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crews responded to hundreds of emergency calls on Independence Day, which included several structure fires and fireworks-related injuries. The fire department ...