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Photo by: wsvn It was a scary start to the school day for some Central Florida students when a fire broke out on their bus. Pictures captured plumes of dark smoke pouring from the bus along Interstate 95 on the Palm Bay Road off-ramp in Brevard County, Thursday morning. The driver was able to pull over to the side of the road and get the children off safely before flames consumed the bus. One of the students FaceTimed his mother

Photo by: WPTV – Staff One person was taken to the hospital Friday morning after a car flipped over into a canal on the side of Interstate 95 in Martin County, authorities said. The Florida Highway Patrol said the rollover wreck happened just before 6:30 a.m. on I-95 southbound at Bridge Road, west of Hobe Sound. Martin County Fire Rescue said one person was taken to Jupiter Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. The crash led to backups on I-95. But

Photo by: wsvn Rescue crews took a moped rider to the hospital after the victim was struck by a driver who fled the scene, police said. Miami Gardens Police and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units responded to the scene of the hit-and-run along the 200 block of Northwest 191st Street, just after 9:15 p.m., Thursday. Investigators said the victim was riding the moped when they were struck by a white Honda. The driver of the Honda fled in an unknown direction,

Miami Police are investigating a crash in the area of SW 27th Avenue and SW 26th Lane in Miami that claimed the life of a man. According to Miami Police, there were reports of a male pedestrian was struck in the street around 4:30 a.m., Friday morning. Miami Fire Rescue responded to the scene and pronounced the victim dead. At the scene there a body was found on the ground covered by a tarp along with shoes and other debris

The Florida Highway Patrol is on the scene of a hit-and-run crash on I-75 northbound near Daniels Parkway at Mile Marker 130. According to the FHP live traffic crash report, the hit-and-run happened around 7 a.m. in Fort Myers. Troopers say the outside northbound lane is blocked with emergency vehicles on the scene. This is an ongoing investigation. You can count on NBC2 to provide updates as they are received. Being involved in a hit-and-run accident can be a traumatic

A South Florida man who was driving at nearly three times the legal blood alcohol content limit on U.S. Hwy 441 in Ocala on Thanksgiving Day in 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison for causing a fatal accident that claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter. On Wednesday, Logan Levi Alexander Weir, of Boca Raton, was sentenced to life in prison on ten different felony counts related to the accident, which claimed the lives of Heidy

Photo by: St. Lucie County Fire District Firefighters from Indian River and St. Lucie counties worked together to extinguish a massive semi-truck fire on Florida’s Turnpike early Friday morning. The St. Lucie County Fire District (SLCFD) said crews assisted Indian River County Fire Rescue (IRCFR) at mile marker 178 on the Turnpike,which borders the Indian River County line near the Fort Drum Conservation area. Florida 511 sent an alert of the fire just after 1 a.m. At the scene, crews

First responders rushed to the scene of a fire Thursday night in northwest Miami-Dade County. It happened inside the Palm Lake Mobile Home Park near Northwest 76th Street and 27th Avenue. Video taken by neighbors and obtained by Local 10 News shows one of the mobile homes on fire. According to residents, an elderly couple lives in the mobile home and the wife is confined to a wheelchair. Miami-Dade police confirmed that the man was rushed to a hospital in

A 74-year-old woman was killed after colliding with a tree in Osceola County on Thursday, Florida Highway Patrol said.  Just before 5 p.m., the woman was traveling in a Nissan Xterra along Marigold Avenue and approaching Stepping Stone Boulevard.  For unknown reasons, she ran off the roadway onto the outside of a grassy shoulder before colliding with a tree.  She was pronounced deceased at the scene.  No other details about the crash have been released.   After a car accident,

On Wednesday, a man was seriously injured in a crash pulling a trailer full of watermelons on I-10 near MM 144 in Jackson County. According to a news release, the incident happened just after 8 p.m., involving a 59-year-old man from Auburndale, Florida. Florida Highway Patrol officials said the driver was traveling east on I-10 and was unable to maintain control of the vehicle while towing a large trailer. As a result, the vehicle traveled off the roadway onto the

The Walton County Fire Rescue was called to an outside fire on Mixon Road in Mossy Head on Thursday. Fire officials said the fire happened at 5:40 a.m., and upon arrival, they discovered a double-wide trailer fully involved. According to a news release, firefighters worked diligently to knock down the blaze. They were on the scene for several hours however, the home was considered a total loss. No one was in the home at the time of the incident, fire

Photo: Marion County Fire Rescue A Marathon gas station on Maricamp Road in southeast Ocala was destroyed by a fire late Wednesday night. Marion County Fire Rescue units were dispatched to the Marathon gas station located at 9433 SE Maricamp Road at 11:39 p.m. on Wednesday, August 14, in response to a commercial structure fire. At the time, the 911 caller reported that there were smoke and flames visible from the structure. Two minutes after they were dispatched, MCFR crews