Salvageable. The incredibly sad thing about this, this Recreation Center was under renovation. A 2. 5 million gift from the owners of the Tampa Bay Lightning to the boys and girls club. They were coming out here to revitalize this Recreation Center, get it back up and running so the Vulnerable Children who live in this area have a safe place to go after school, on the weekends to play basket thats the part thats burning right now. The Public Information officer for the Hillsborough County Fire Department just got to the scene. We are going to walk around the corner and talk with him quickly and well come back to you with a live report coming up. Live in tampa, lind si low, abc action news. Thank you. A convicted kill er will post bond. He was convicted of manslaughter duly maintains it was selfdefense because james attacked him. In 2010 the two were arguing about a teenager who was skateboarding in the neighborhood. James daughter watched him shoot her dad. She was 8 at the time. Her m
The building. The incredibly sad part about this story, this was under renovation. It was a multimillion dollar renovation to make it into a boys and girls club. That money, 2. 5 million was volunteer nated from the venic family to make that happen. Part of the building was under construction. At this point we dont know what materials were inside. You have to imagine Construction Materials things like lumber, electrical equipment, all of those things likely fuelled the fire. Neighbors i here devastated by the loss for the kids in this neighborhood that would have coming here to this Recreation Center on a daily basis. Tennis, basketball, playing cards, hanging out with friends. Now they have to start from scratch. This entire building is a loss. It will have to be bulldozed to the ground. As soon as we get more updates here from tampa and this fire at wilson park Lindsey Logue. Good morning. Im dan shaffer. Im deal yeah riley. We want to get a check on your forecast. Ivan is standing b
I want to show you the maps right now if we can get to those. Look at that area shaded in yellow. Thats where we are seeing this area of patchy fog between lakeland and plant city and then south of i4. The good news is once you get into downtown tampa look at it here. Interstate 275 there just 5 minutes from downtown to the Howard Frankland bridge. Thank you. The search continues this morning for a man accused of groping a woman over the weekend with friends at 1st avenue at her favorite bar. She said the man cornered her, shoved his hands up her shirt and grabbed her breasts. It was caught on Surveillance Video. Three men rushed to hospital but the suspect ran off. St. Petersburg police hope someone will recognize him and turn him in. New this morning, the second inmate who escaped from jail is now back in custody. Police finally caught him after a stand off that lasted more than 7 him hiding this the attic of a friends home. They shot tear gas into the home at least twice earlier tha
Watching video from earlier this morning, corey. Those flames intense, going through the roofs and the windows and the doors. They were like that when firefighters got here. Absolutely. It was very intense flame s through the roof. Crews reported from blocks away they could see fire and smoke. When they got on scene they took a defensive attack since there was nobody inside. Reporter corey, this Recreation Center was under construc we dont know what equipment was in there but probably lumber, electrical equipment, that stuff certainly fuels a fire. Absolutely. Thats something that our commad units will look at. It was obvious it was being renovated. They will take that into account and the flammable things that could be inside. Reporter corey, thank you so much for your time. Best of luck to you men out there still working to make sure they get out of the hot spots out so the start the real work, find out exactly what happened here. A huge loss again to the community this Recreation Ce
Right here, tore through a tampa Recreation Center. This is the Winston Park Recreation Center undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation. Lindsey logue is live to show us what is left. It look like that building was destroyed. Reporter to the ground. Dan and deiah good morning to you. The roof caved in a couple of hours ago and t walls. Let me show you what is left of what used to be a place for kids to gather. Its now nothing but a pile of rubble and soot. Theyll have to wait even longer for the new Recreation Center they have been dreaming of. I used to come here all the time and play basketball here. They used to let us play with the kids in the inside of it. We used to have a lot of fun here. It was a good place. Frank lives down the block from the Winston Park Recreation Center, once a safe haven for standing here now its sad to see what happened to it. The fire started just before 3 00 this morning. The flames high and hot spread so fast by the time firefighters got to 76th and