High Springs talks cutting fire department to curb $723k deficit in 2025-26
Raises fire assessment rate to $250.
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High Springs talks cutting fire department to curb $723k deficit in 2025-26
Raises fire assessment rate to $250.
High Springs urges residents to join budget workshop Thursday
City commissioner asks county for more time before cutting its fire aid to the city.
Firefighters battle High Springs blaze, save cat
Multiple units respond to mobile home fire.
Alachua County’s Harold Theus named Florida’s Fire Chief of the Year
Theus started with Alachua County Fire Rescue in 1994.
Single-vehicle accident injures 1 in Melrose
Driver extricated from vehicle, sustains serious injuries.
Gainesville police seek suspect who shot teenager
Incident occurred on SW 1st Street early Saturday morning.
Gainesville police arrest 18-year-old for attempted murder
Person shot in Northeast Gainesville on Wednesday night.
Hawthorne residential fire injures 1
Firefighters extinguished fire that started in kitchen
Firefighters extinguish residential blaze in southwest Gainesville
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
Victim found unconscious with severe trauma to head.
Firefighters respond to fatal accident in Hawthorne
Victim entrapped in two-vehicle accident on US Highway 301.
Newberry Fire Department adds Knox Box Rapid Entry Systems to calls
Program aims for quicker and safer entries to locked buildings.
Alachua County raises flag, decouples hose at ceremony for new Fire Station 21
Community open house scheduled for Saturday.
Firefighters contain 236-acre brush fire on County Road 225
Florida Forest Service continues to monitor area by plane for flare ups
1 extricated from I-75 single-vehicle crash north of Micanopy
Incident occurs Tuesday morning near northbound mile marker 378.
High Springs Fire Department responds to Sunday pole-barn fire
Barn fully engulfed with vehicles inside.
Butler Plaza Walmart shooting injures 1, suspect surrenders himself to police
Victim in critical condition.
Homes For Our Troops to build custom home for disabled veteran
Nonprofit to complete home for Carlos Rivera and his family this summer.
Newberry woman, 63, dies in 2-vehicle crash south of Gainesville
Collision occurs on SW Williston Road.
Alachua County talks budget season, resource centers
Burden for fire assessment may shift.
Law enforcement apprehends boy who attempted 2 armed carjackings
Incident occurs in Northwest Gainesville.
1 dead, 5 injured in single-vehicle rollover on I-75 in Gainesville
Accident occurs near Williston Road southbound offramp exit.
Gainesville collision on NW 16th Avenue injures 2
Crash occurs on Monday evening.
Firefighters contain blaze at SW 69th Terrace residential building
Fire occurs Sunday morning.