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Photo by: fox35Orlando Heavy rain resulting from Tropical Storm Debby is already causing some damage to Central Florida on Sunday afternoon.  Homeowner Ella Rusnak shared a video with FOX 35 of rain pouring down from her pool-covered ceiling in Christmas Estates in Orange County.  The video shows the moment her pool cover completely collapses, letting in a large amount of rain that appears to have been weighing down the pool cover.  The impacts from Tropical Storm Debby began to roll

Photo by: Hernando County Fire Rescue Hernando County Fire Rescue responded to an early morning fire at a strip mall in Spring Hill on Monday. As Hurricane Debby roared through the Gulf Coast, dumping rain on the Tampa Bay area, HCFR responded to a commercial fire in the 11000 block of Spring Hill Drive. Units responded at around 3:30 a.m. on Monday. According to HCFR, units found a fire through the roof of a small strip mall. Crews used a defensive strategy due to

Photo by:  Hillsborough County Fire Rescue Hillsborough County Fire Rescue says a mobile home in Seffner caught on fire Saturday night. According to officials, firefighters responded to the fire on Sligh Ave. after receiving a 911 call just after 10 p.m. The homeowner reported smoke and flames coming from their home. The first crew arrived about seven minutes after being sent to the mobile home. The fire was under control within 30 minutes, according to HCFR. Authorities say no civilians or firefighters

Photo by: fox13news An 18-wheeler lost control on I-75 early Monday morning, overturning into the Tampa Bypass Canal and leaving a stretch of the highway closed, according to authorities. According to the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, officials responded at 2:35 a.m. after an 18-wheeler driving south on I-75 lost control near MM 263 and went off the road. HCFR arrived to find the truck teetering on the guard rail with the cab still out of the water. About 15 minutes later, the front cab

 The man charged with seven counts of molestation and one count of sexual battery on children under 12 has been sentenced to life in the Florida Department of Corrections. William Charles Carawan, 33, of Fort White, was identified in 2022 by Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) deputies as the suspect who sexually battered at least four victims between 2019 and 2022. He taught at Bell Elementary School before being arrested by Baker County and Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies on

Anthony Todt (Law&Crime) A quadruple murderer who killed his entire family and their dog in Florida has filed a federal lawsuit against the jail that housed him for over two years because it released a letter he wrote to his father to the media. Anthony Todt, 48, murdered his wife Megan, 42, along with his 13-year-old son Alek, his 11-year-old son Tyler, and his 4-year-old daughter Zoe, plus the family dog in the idyllic Disney town of Celebration in December 2019. A

A woman accused of killing a spider in her Florida home is facing animal cruelty charges, according to investigators in the Panhandle. Turns out the suspect’s roommate not only was fond of the tiny spider, but also considered it a pet, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a July 31 news release. Investigators say suspicions were aroused when the roommate returned to her Crestview home on July 15 to find her jumping spider and its enclosure were missing, the sheriff’s office

Photo by: Fox35Orlando A Florida man is accused of tying an alligator up against a fence and later calling 911, claiming to have found the reptile that way, deputies said.  Robert Colin, 71, faces a felony charge of injuring a gator without authority in the July 31 incident, an affidavit shows.  According to deputies, Colin arrived at the area of W. Central Blvd and Oak Manor Dr. around 7:30 a.m. to capture a gator nearby.  Colin allegedly used a white nylon rope

A two-vehicle crash at an Ocala intersection left a 43-year-old man dead and an elderly man critically injured on Wednesday evening. The fatal crash occurred at around 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 27 and NW 60th Avenue. According to a report from the Florida Highway Patrol, an 81-year-old Ocala man was traveling westbound on U.S. Highway 27 in an SUV when he entered the left turn lane near the intersection of NW 60th

Photo: Ocala Fire Rescue Four individuals were injured, including two who were trauma alerted from the scene, after an accident on I-75 in Marion County involving a sport utility vehicle, dump truck, and box truck. The incident took place near mile marker 352 on northbound I-75 on Thursday, according to a statement from the Ocala Fire Rescue. Although the details of the crash have not yet been provided, the accident involved a collision between a small dump truck that had

Photo by: NBC2 A duplex home caught fire in the Pine Manor neighborhood just before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. South Trail Fire and Rescue responded to the fire where they said smoke and flames were visible through broken windows. No one was home at the time of the fire, so crews had to force entry. The fire was quickly extinguished as additional crews searched the home. South Trail Fire investigators say the cause of the fire was a malfunctioning stand-alone

Tracy Perez has faced the unthinkable, losing everything she owns twice to fires. A brush fire destroyed her house in 2021. She said she finally was able to get back up on her feet a little, living in an RV with her two sons behind their burnt home. Just before 12 a.m. on Wednesday night, Perez received a horrifying call from her sons, who said their RV was going up in flames. “I couldn’t even believe it. I mean, the