- Crews battled a large brush fire near Alafia River State Park on Friday night (April 27th).
- According to an agency press release, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit assisted the Department of Forestry with the fast-moving fire.
- The unit's pilot and tactical flight deputy dumped 4,200 gallons of water onto the fire to help put out the flames.
A state report says hundreds of frail elderly nursing home residents were stacked side by side, head to toe in a small church with no working air conditioning or refrigerator during Hurricane Helene.
Florida nursing home patients were 'side by side, head to toe' with no air conditioning, food
