{"id":424029,"date":"2026-10-10T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424029\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T06:23:23","slug":"local-state-of-emergency-extended-for-some-tampa-bay-area-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424029\/","title":{"rendered":"Local state of emergency extended for some Tampa Bay area counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Hillsborough and Pinellas counties have extended the local state of emergency due to ongoing dengue fever concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The orders extend until Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p>A local state of emergency can remain in effect for seven days unless rescinded or extended.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County said crews continue to increase air and ground treatments because of dengue virus activity.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28&#8217;s Jada Williams has covered Hillsborough County&#8217;s dengue outbreak for months and followed city leaders from the podium to the places they say are driving mosquito control efforts on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Watch report from Jada Williams<\/p>\n<p>What we found at a West Tampa tire shop in the middle of Hillsborough County&#8217;s dengue fever outbreak<\/p>\n<p>Officials recommend regularly checking yards for containers and other areas that collect standing water, where mosquitoes can breed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791613403_659_CHAD.MILLS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;My heart breaks&#8217;: Woman describes helping injured students after deadly school bus crash in Polk County<\/p>\n<p>A woman on her way to work Monday morning found herself helping injured Winter Haven High School students after a school bus crash that killed two people.<\/p>\n<p>Woman describes helping injured students after deadly school bus crash in Polk County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Hillsborough and Pinellas counties have extended the local state of emergency due to ongoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54548,147106,50311,276,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-424029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-concerns","tag-dengue","tag-fever","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424029","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=424029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}