Alachua County passes tentative budget, millage rates for 2026
Sep 11, 2025
New rates to generate $17 million additional taxes.
Tags: Alachua County Fire Rescue
Alachua County passes tentative budget, millage rates for 2026
New rates to generate $17 million additional taxes.
Community climbs The Swamp for 9/11 remembrance
Sep 11, 2025
Alachua County Fire Rescue and UF tradition enters ninth year.
High Springs continues fire contract with county, approves budget
Sep 9, 2025
City staff issue apologies for misinformation at Aug. 28 meeting.
High Springs withdraws criticism of Alachua County Fire Rescue, cites misinformation
Sep 5, 2025
Letter from labor union calls out inaccuracies from Aug. 28 commission meeting.
High Springs to raise taxes, save fire department to solve 2025-26 deficit
Aug 29, 2025
Commissioners to send letter to Alachua County against “bad faith” fire aid cut negotiations.
Newberry fire assessment fee spikes 50%
Aug 26, 2025
Rate’s first increase in three years jumps to $300.
High Springs talks cutting fire department to curb $723k deficit in 2025-26
Aug 22, 2025
Raises fire assessment rate to $250.
High Springs urges residents to join budget workshop Thursday
Aug 18, 2025
City commissioner asks county for more time before cutting its fire aid to the city.
Firefighters battle High Springs blaze, save cat
Jul 23, 2025
Multiple units respond to mobile home fire.
Alachua County’s Harold Theus named Florida’s Fire Chief of the Year
Jul 22, 2025
Theus started with Alachua County Fire Rescue in 1994.
Single-vehicle accident injures 1 in Melrose
Jul 8, 2025
Driver extricated from vehicle, sustains serious injuries.
Gainesville police seek suspect who shot teenager
Jul 7, 2025
Incident occurred on SW 1st Street early Saturday morning.
Gainesville police arrest 18-year-old for attempted murder
Jul 3, 2025
Person shot in Northeast Gainesville on Wednesday night.
Hawthorne residential fire injures 1
Jul 1, 2025
Firefighters extinguished fire that started in kitchen
Firefighters extinguish residential blaze in southwest Gainesville
Jun 30, 2025
Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR) units doused a residential structure fire in southwest Gainesville on Saturday night. According to an ACFR release, firefighters responded around 11 […]
Gainesville police investigate aggravated battery in North Lincoln Heights
Jun 24, 2025
Victim found unconscious with severe trauma to head.
Firefighters respond to fatal accident in Hawthorne
Jun 19, 2025
Victim entrapped in two-vehicle accident on US Highway 301.
Newberry Fire Department adds Knox Box Rapid Entry Systems to calls
Jun 12, 2025
Program aims for quicker and safer entries to locked buildings.
Alachua County raises flag, decouples hose at ceremony for new Fire Station 21
May 30, 2025
Community open house scheduled for Saturday.
Firefighters contain 236-acre brush fire on County Road 225
May 27, 2025
Florida Forest Service continues to monitor area by plane for flare ups
1 extricated from I-75 single-vehicle crash north of Micanopy
May 20, 2025
Incident occurs Tuesday morning near northbound mile marker 378.
High Springs Fire Department responds to Sunday pole-barn fire
May 5, 2025
Barn fully engulfed with vehicles inside.
Butler Plaza Walmart shooting injures 1, suspect surrenders himself to police
May 1, 2025
Victim in critical condition.
Homes For Our Troops to build custom home for disabled veteran
Apr 27, 2025
Nonprofit to complete home for Carlos Rivera and his family this summer.