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Photo: WEAR Escambia County Fire Rescue crews quickly put out a fire that broke out in a unit at a local assisted living community on Saturday night. Firefighters say they responded to reports of a fire at Homestead Village on Pine Forest Road around 9 p.m. When first responders arrived, most residents were already out of the building, according to officials. The fire was extinguished quickly, and crews are assessing damage to the building. No injuries have been reported. No

Photo: WEAR A Gulf Breeze antique mall caught fire Saturday night just off Highway 98. The blaze broke out on the business’s third anniversary. Now the store owners and more than 20 local vendors are waiting to see if they can recoup some of their livelihood. “It was clearly a pretty legitimate working fire,” Midway Fire District Chief Shannon Stone said. The Midway Fire District got called out to 98 Treasures just after 8 p.m. A 911 call reported heavy

Photo: WEAR  A car crashed through a fence and into a used car dealership in Pensacola on Sunday morning. Officials say the crash happened at Zach’s Motors on 622 Palm Court around 2 am. No further details have been released. Holding Negligent Drivers Accountable After a Car CrashWhen a car accident is caused by negligence, victims deserve justice. Ovadia Law Group is dedicated to holding responsible drivers accountable and helping you recover from your injuries. Our personal injury attorneys are

Police are investigating after a reported shooting left one person seriously injured on Sunday. According to the Tarpon Springs Police Department, officers responded to the 200 block of East Martin Luther King Jr. Drive regarding a person who had been shot. Officers arrived and made contact with the victim, who was taken to a local trauma center by helicopter with life-threatening injuries. TSPD said the other person involved, who is known to the victim, stayed on the scene and is

An Airbnb and a neighboring home caught on fire early Monday morning, Hernando County Fire Rescue announced. Crews responded to the 7000 block of Coventry Court in Weeki Wachee around 3 a.m. after reports of a house fire. Arriving, HCFR found a two-story home used as an Airbnb with heavy fire and spreading to a neighboring home. Neighbor A sent in videos of the houses on fire, saying, “Thank you, firefighters.” Firefighters quickly extinguished the flames in the second house,

At least three older teens were among four people injured Saturday night in a shooting on Jacksonville’s Westside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Officers were called around 11:40 p.m. Saturday to Ortega Woods Drive in the Duclay Forest area of the Westside because of reports that someone had been shot. Officers found three men, all in their late teens, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. JSO said that around the same time, officers received another call from Ortega Park Boulevard,

Photo: WSVN A pedestrian has been rushed to the hospital after a crash in North Miami Beach. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue units and Miami Beach Police officers responded to the scene of the crash in the area of 163rd Street and Northeast 35th Avenue on Friday afternoon. 7Skyforce hovered over the scene capturing a car and a bike underneath of it and three lanes of traffic blocked. Fire crews said a person was transported to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. Their condition

A sleeping driver and a wrong-way driver were caught on camera crashing into Tampa police patrol cars just days apart, the police department said. “In about 72 hours, our officers were involved in crashes caused by drivers who never should have been behind the wheel,” the police department posted on Facebook. On July 22, police said an impaired driver traveled the wrong way through a neighborhood. Just days later, officers said another driver fell asleep behind the wheel. Both crashes

Photo: WJXT News4JAX Crews were responding to a multi-vehicle crash on I-95 South ramp to Dunn Ave. Friday afternoon. Video from the scene appeared to show a grey sedan that collided with a semi-truck. As of 2:30 p.m., the off-ramp right lanes were blocked. By 3:30 p.m., all lanes were back open. Holding Negligent Drivers Accountable After a Car CrashWhen a car accident is caused by negligence, victims deserve justice. Ovadia Law Group is dedicated to holding responsible drivers accountable