For Black History Month, we celebrate Polk County Fire Rescue Chief Dr. Hezedean Smith, the agency's first Black chief.

Polk County Fire Rescue's union president says the staffing shortages have created longer work hours for current firefighters.

There’s something magical about that moment when you’re standing in a sea of treasures, holding some peculiar trinket you never knew existed, yet suddenly can’t imagine living without. That’s the ...

BARTOW, Fla. (WFLA) — A tree caught fire after being struck by lightning in Bartow Monday. It happened around 5:30 p.m., ...

Martin County Fire Rescue crews responded to a fire at the Florida Power and Light plant in Indiantown. No reported injuries.

A person was found dead and others were injured in an early morning house fire in northern Minnesota on Wednesday.

A brush fire broke out Monday afternoon in the city of Santa Paula, Ventura County, fire officials announced.

POLK TWP., Pa. – Fire destroyed a barn in Monroe County late Thursday night. The blaze happened in a wooded area in the 500 block of Lower Middle Creek Road in Polk Township. Emergency ...

54-year-old Charles Ogle is suspected of starting a fire inside a mobile home in Putnam County, Florida on Sunday after an argument with 2 women. First responders broke windows and tore out an air ...

Firefighters in Ventura County were battling two brush fires Monday night, which came on the heels of a warning by forecasters that this week would bring elevated fire weather conditions.

A firefighter was treated for a heat-related illness after fighting a fire in Caroline County.

Fire type: Wildfire Fire name: 6-3 6-3 Fire initially started today at 8:12 p.m. in Trinity County, California and it is a part of BATTALION 6 LCA COMPLEX fire. It has burned 0.3 acres of private ...