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

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed nearly $600 million from the state budget, impacting some Polk County projects. Haines City's emergency operations center, fire facility, and municipal annex ...

POLK COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — On March 3, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission received a call from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reporting that an alligator had attacked a kayaker ...

Polk County Fire Rescue responded to a fatal recreational vehicle fire in Lakeland on Saturday.

One person is dead after being trapped inside an RV that caught fire on Saturday morning in Polk County, officials say.

The circumstances surrounding the fire are currently under investigation. The Florida State Fire Marshals Office and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office have taken over the investigation to determine the ...

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise, a unit of FDOT, resumed the project last May, launching an alternative corridor study for the 28-mile eastern segment known as Central Polk Parkway East.

FLORIDA — Polk County on Friday issued a burn ban, joining most of the rest of Central Florida. The ban includes campfires, bonfires, yard and trash fires, construction debris, unpermitted ...

Polk County Fire Rescue will open its 45th station, Moore Road Fire Station 25, in Lakeland on May 23. The $5.97 million station will house an engine company and a tanker truck, serving the area ...

LAKELAND, Fla. — Fire crews are working to keep wildfires under control across Polk County amid a countywide burn ban.

brush fires have erupted in central Florida with burn bans in Volusia, Lake, Polk, Seminole and Orange counties.