{"id":355514,"date":"2026-07-28T22:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T22:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:56:37","slug":"2-kids-in-serious-condition-after-truck-hits-2-tampa-apartment-buildings-hcfr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355514\/","title":{"rendered":"2 kids in serious condition after truck hits 2 Tampa apartment buildings: HCFR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Hillsborough County Fire Rescue (HCFR) said two pediatric patients were transported to the hospital in serious condition after a vehicle crashed into two apartment units on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>HCFR said it received multiple calls at around 9:38 a.m. on July 28 reporting a vehicle had struck an apartment building on Palm Bay Drive in the Palm River area.<\/p>\n<p>The report said crews arrived to find a vehicle had hit two apartment units. According to the preliminary investigation, HCFR said the driver had backed into one apartment before pulling forward into a second apartment, causing structural damage to both buildings.<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785279395_816_.png\" alt=\"2 pediatric patients in serious condition after vehicle crashes into buildings: HCFR\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Fire Rescue<\/p>\n<p>HCFR said both buildings were evacuated and two pediatric patients, who were occupants of one of the impacted apartments, were transported to the hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, HCFR worked with Hillsborough County Code Enforcement to assess the structural integrity of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the cause of the incident remains under investigation, and no first responders were injured during the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ERIK.WAXLER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Questions remain after FHP pursuit ends in crash that kills teen passenger<\/p>\n<p>The crash has left many in the New Port Richey community in shock and mourning, while also raising questions about the pursuit itself and the decision to use a PIT maneuver.<\/p>\n<p>Questions remain after FHP pursuit ends in crash that kills teen passenger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Hillsborough County Fire Rescue (HCFR) said two pediatric patients were transported to the hospital in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[276,145067,145068,135,132749,5910,108336,3670,137,136,6525,208],"class_list":["post-355514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-palm-bay-drive","tag-pediatric-patient","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-apartment","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-truck","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}