In response to the urgent demand for firefighters, both locally and nationwide, the North Collier Fire Rescue District has recently brought on board 22 new recruits. This marks their largest and most diverse group yet.
Greater Naples Fire Rescue crews, along with Florida Forest Service, North Collier Fire Rescue District and Collier County Sheriff's Office helicopter were working a 25-acre beush fire that erupted Thursday in the Picayune Strand State Forest, near mile marker 96 on I-75.