“I highly encourage you to evacuate” if you’re in an evacuation zone, said Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management. “We are preparing ... for the largest evacuation that we have seen, most likely since 2017, Hurricane Irma.” The ...
"There's no other way to put this. Over the next few days, Tampa Bay is faced with the biggest hurricane it's had for more than 100 years," Pinellas County emergency management director Cathie Perkins told a press conference. A Category 3 storm in 1921, before storms were named, devasta...
On Saturday, DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 35 counties along Florida's west coast in advance of the storm. He raised that number to 51 on Sunday evening. The governor encouraged residents to start preparing now for Milton by replenishing their supplies of gas and non...
"In fact, when everybody signs on to work with us, we make them sign a statement that says every employee is an emergency manager," Criswell said. "So we start to repurpose some of our steady state employees from headquarters, but we also move people around from non-critical life threat...
“There was too much water coming in, and we just took blankets, and we took, we had emergency bags with our birth certificates. … And we just kept climbing up the staircase in the stairwell,” she said. "The whistling of the storm, it was really scary," Austin said, describing...
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Florida, and U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor said 7,000 federal workers were called on to help in one of the largest mobilizations of federal personnel in history. Many evacuate, but some are reluctant ...
Aerial Recovery, a non-profit organization that supported hurricane relief efforts in Asheville, North Carolina, after Hurricane Helene, has now made their way down to Florida to assist with Hurricane Milton relief efforts. Co-founder Jeremy Locke joins TODAY to detail the extensive damage they'r...
"Helene likely provided a stark reminder of how vulnerable certain areas are to storms, particularly coastal regions," said Craig Fugate, who served as administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Barack Obama. "When people see firsthand what can happen, especially in ...
Police Chief Anthony Holloway said during a Thursday morning press conference that one death was due to a medical issue and the other involved a person found in a park following the storm. Volusia County's emergency management director, Clint Mecham, confirmed four storm-...
In an Emergency, notify a Jellystone Park™️ at Milton employee. Police: Dial 911 or contact the Pennsylvania State Police Department at (570)524-2662 or the Milton Police Department at (570)742-8757 Fire/Ambulance: Dial 911 Hospital: Evangelical Community Hospital, 1 Hospital Drive Lewisbur...