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Photo by: Martin County Fire Rescue Things were heating up on Valentine’s Day for firefighters in Martin County. Martin County Fire Rescue said at 8:30 a.m. firefighters responded to a car engulfed in flames on 33rd Street in Palm City. Photos taken at the scene show firefighters working on containing the flames while plumes of smoke fill the air. Crew said they were able to extinguish the fire, but the car was listed as a total loss. MCFR said a

Photo by: Cbs News An accident brought a section of I-95 to a standstill Thursday morning. It happened in the southbound lanes between Ives Dairy Road and Miami Gardens Drive. As of 7 a.m., all of the regular lanes were closed and only one express lane was getting by. Traffic is backed up for miles. Chopper4 over the scene spotted a Coca-Cola semi-truck, that was involved in the crash, rolled over, its load spilled all over the road. A car

Photo by: Marion County Fire Rescue A car crashed into an Ocala home on Tuesday night, leaving the driver injured, according to Marion County Fire Rescue. In a release, fire officials said the crash happened in the 4400 block of NW 78th Avenue around 8 p.m. While the homeowner called 911 to report the crash, it was unknown whether anyone was trapped inside of the car, the release says. Firefighters arrived at the scene shortly afterward, finding the car inside

Phot by: local10 A woman pushing a baby in a stroller died after a dump truck ran her over on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood early Wednesday afternoon. The baby was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. The crash happened just before 1 p.m. at the Northeast 22nd Street intersection. According to Miami police, the woman died after being pinned underneath the truck. The baby was “alert and crying” after the crash, according to a Miami Police Department spokesperson. Images

Photo by: wflx The Martin County Sheriff’s Office said trains may be delayed Wednesday morning after a car flipped over on the railroad tracks. In a Facebook post just before 8:15 a.m., the sheriff’s office said a red SUV rolled over on the tracks south of Cove Road in the Port Salerno area. The driver wasn’t hurt, but the sheriff’s office said train traffic is expected to be impacted for the next couple of hours, which could cause backups at

Photo by: Polk County Fire Rescue A semi-truck and pickup truck crash occurred on Highway 60 in Polk County. Both occupants were trapped in their vehicles. Polk County Fire Rescue arrived at the scene within six minutes of receiving the call and began to rescue the victims. During the rescue operation, a leak was found from the semi-truck. PCFR’s Special Operations team quickly controlled the leak. Two patients were transported to local trauma centers, with one of them taken by

Photo by: nbcmiami A Coral Gables Police motorcycle officer was injured Tuesday in a crash, officials said. Drivers were asked to avoid the 4100 block of Alhambra Circle as police investigated. The crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. when the on-duty officer who was assisting in an escort got into a crash with a white SUV. It’s unclear what led up to the crash. Footage from the scene shows the motorcycle flipped on its side and the driver’s side of

Photo by: wfla Part of Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa will be closed for hours Wednesday due to a fatal pedestrian crash. The Tampa Police Department said the crash happened in the westbound lanes of Kennedy Boulevard near Armenia Avenue. Officers said the driver stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators. No information was given about the person who was killed in the crash. The westbound lanes of Kennedy Boulevard are closed at Armenia Avenue. The eastbound lanes are

Florida police are searching for a homeless man who allegedly stabbed his friend multiple times with a Samurai sword on Monday, while refusing to hand over an Xbox gaming console. FOX 35 in Orlando reported that the Daytona Beach Police Department is looking for Walter Grimes, who is wanted for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. In a report obtained by the station, police said officers responded to an apartment on the 1000 block of South Beach Street, where they found

A man in his mid-40s died Wednesday morning after he crashed into a car and tree in a mobile home park on Jacksonville’s Westside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. JSO’s Sergeant Hungerford says the crash happened at approximately 3:20 a.m. at ‘Pine Breeze Mobile Home Park,’ located at 9842 103rd Street. Hungerford says the man was in a black 4-door sedan and was traveling southbound in the park when he “failed to negotiate a T-intersection,” thus causing the crash.

Photo by: wptv A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital as a trauma alert Tuesday morning after a crash involving a car, Palm Beach County Fire Rescue said. The accident happened at around 8:40 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95, just after the Sixth Avenue South exit. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and Florida Highway Patrol responded to the crash. Cellphone video captured the motorcycle heavily damaged on its side and a

A person breaking into a car was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Northwest Miami-Dade, police said. The shooting happened around 2:30 a.m near Northwest 79th Avenue and 194th Street. According to Miami-Dade police, after the shooting, the suspected robber got into the driver’s seat of an “awaiting vehicle” before he crashed into several others. The driver died there and a passenger in the get-away car took off. Police have not said whether the shooter is the owner of the