{"id":361584,"date":"2026-08-03T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:15:18","slug":"tampa-city-council-seeks-solutions-to-cut-new-tampa-fire-response-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361584\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council Seeks Solutions To Cut New Tampa Fire Response Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa City Council members examined ways to shrink emergency response times in New Tampa during a Thursday morning meeting. Fire stations there have some of the longest response times for Tampa Fire Rescue. Times stretch from about nine and a half minutes to more than 10 and a half minutes.<\/p>\n

Most other stations across the city have response times between six and nine minutes, according to Tampa Firefighters Local 754. The Fire Chief stressed in a written report to council members that completing the planned Morris Bridge Road access to K-Bar Ranch remains a top priority.<\/p>\n

The cut-through should improve access. It’ll speed up firefighter response times too. A contractor told city leaders that construction on the road project should wrap up in the next month or two.<\/p>\n

Councilman Luis Viera asked whether emergency vehicles could start using the cut-through sooner. This would help improve services.<\/p>\n

“It’s not a matter of call volume,” Viera said, according to Fox 13 News<\/a>. “It’s a matter of response times, and this cut through, I am told, is going to be the best way to immediately get positive results for those response times. And so, when I saw that it was almost finished, I’m making sure that people have their foot on the gas pedal, going as fast as possible on this thing.”<\/p>\n

Officials haven’t confirmed whether construction crews can open the cut-through to emergency vehicles prior to full completion. The council expects to receive an update next week. They want to know about early access for first responders.<\/p>\n

Viera said the city will soon break ground on Fire Station 24 in North Tampa. The facility has been planned for years. Growth in the area made it necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council members examined ways to shrink emergency response times in New Tampa during a Thursday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-361584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361584","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=361584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}