On Sept. 24, the Charlotte County commissioners unanimously approved an agreement between the new department, Little Gasparilla Island Fire and Rescue Inc. and the Florida Division of Forestry ...

LITTLE GASPARILLA ISLAND -- The effort to start a volunteer fire department on this bridgeless barrier island is being marred by a feud. The bad blood between the chief of the new department and ...

Burt and Sandy Perry of Fort Meade, along with Sandy Perry's daughter, Kimberly Tompkins, 22, and her boyfriend, Clint Jowers, 24, of Kathleen, had gone to Little Gasparilla on Friday night.

Lt. Ken Newman of Tampa Fire Rescue was working the Gasparilla Children's Parade last weekend when he got the call. A young girl watching the parade along Bayshore Boulevard had fallen down and ...

Charlotte County had issued evacuation orders for residents living on the barrier islands of Don Pedro Island, Knight Island (Palm Island), Little Gasparilla ... the attempted rescue of ...