Even for seasoned animal control deputies this was a tough one. Its heartbreaking. These dogs suffer for human enjoyment and its not fair. Photos provided to fox 13 from 852 twig street appear to show a dog fighting training center, a place where brutality and aggression were the norm and dogged learned how to fight to the death. That was their hole life, either and they were skinny, thin, emaciated. Deputies removed 19 adult dogs and two innocent puppies, they are being treated at Animal Services and they were more than happy to leave. Their eyes give it all away, but it started on a sad note, a is what led deputies to the house. Several men facing animal crawlt cruelty charges. How any human could get pleasure out of watching an animal hurt or kill another animal is disgusting. The dog fighting world is a horrible world, because if they will do this to their dog, who says they wont do it to their members and because Animal Services took in all of the dogs the shelter is now overrun a
Im jennifer epstein. vanessa and im vanessa ruffes. Walter will be in later this morning. Those stories in a minute, but now, a first look at your forecast with dave osterberg. Polk county deputies are he was hit by a truck while riding his bike near his north lakeland home. So far its unclear if the driver of the truck that hit the boy will face charges. It happened just before five last nighton saddlewood boulevard off rockridge road. Deputies say Austin Crawford was riding his bike with his big sister near their house. When he turned into the road. A pickup truck hit the boy. A neighbor tried to save the boy by doing cpr. But he died. That neighbor says austin was a vibrant little boy who liked to talk and play. We dont know yet if speed was a people rarely follow the speed limit on this street. It appears that the driver is cooperating with deputies. We expect to learn more about exactly what happened sometime today. 13yearold boy is in Critical Condition after he was hit by a car.
No closed captioning is available for traffic. Available for captioning is no closed no closed captioning is available for traffic. Fox 13s Alcides Segui is live on the ground in tampa this morning. Alcides thanks alcides. Now to a tragic story in polk county. Where deputies continue to investigate the death of a five year old boy. After he was hit by a truck. While riding his bike. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves is live near lakeland this morning. Shayla, this happened i cant begin to understand what this family must be feeling. Especially, the eight Year Old Girl who lost her little brother. Youre looking at the scene off saddlewood boulevard, around 5 oclock thursday evening. According to the polk county sheriffs office. A pick up truck struck 5 yearold Austin Crawfordas he and his sister road bikes in front of his next door neighbors home. Deputies say the boy turned and traveled into the road. The passing driver hit him. A neighbor shared memories of the child. We learned neighbors and fam
After they cleaned up the mess on saturday. Reporter the spill happened right behind me from a malfunctioning pump. Mosaic said they had all 50,000 contained within their property. Nonetheless the neighbors sharing big concerns with anything related to mosaic and water. John shults lives less than a mile down the road. His family depends on water. We caught him off guard when we told him about the still. This is crazy. I am just now hearing about this. Reporter in a written fact sheet they said there is no potential health risk to anyone. They said a pulp failed. I dont know what that means. Reporter it is nondrinkable water. Typically it is used in plants. The company cleaned it up and their gates. Despite hearing this, neighbors not set at ease immediately thinking of their other problems 12 mails away in polk county. This makes people concerned. Reporter they say it is all too close to comfort, too close to their homes and too close to the sinkhole to the spill. They insist mosaic s
Action plan. Reporter good evening and engineers are now tasked with coming up with this plan to try to prevent any more storm water from overflowing into the streets, homes and into the bay. Maria says wastewater was a big issue on her street during hurricane hermine. It looked like water coming up, my husbands truck went up there the manhole would have blown out. Reporter several county sewer systems reached capacity causing millions of gallons of wastewater to go into the streets. Maria who has lived here 20 years says shes never seen anything like it. We live in florida and there are storms coming here so why are we having that happening . They should have an action plan before storms arrive. Reporter today leaders worked on the plan and city mayors brought up the meeting. You heard from the different cities and entities how we have different needs and different systems with different progress over the years. Reporter the task force comprised from engineers from different municipal