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Florida Emergency Hotline: For statewide emergency assistance, call 1-800-342-3557. Disaster Distress Helpline : If you’re feeling overwhelmed, reach out to 1-800-985-5990 for emotional support.
Cooling stations, shelters, and bus routes are also available throughout the county. Residents can call for additional information at 727-464-4333 or Disaster.Pinellas.gov .
Pinellas County residents in mandatory evacuation zones must leave by 12 p.m. on Thursday, officials announced.
Throughout the state, nearly 700 emergency shelters were opened. The shelters collectively housed about 191,764 people, [10] with more than 40% of them staying in a shelter in South Florida, including 31,092 in Miami-Dade County, 17,263 in Palm Beach County, 17,040 in Collier County, and 17,000 in Broward County. [24]
Williams Park has also been known as the city's homeless park, although less-so since the city relocated bus shelters in 2018. Local residents, college students and shoppers no longer stroll the sidewalks or lounge on the landscaped lawn. Ongoing drug sweeps and police activity are now the features that mar this once prominent gathering place. [4]
Pinellas County has one of the highest concentrations of any Florida county, at nearly 0.3% with nearly 3,000 homeless people and a population in general of almost one million. It is second next to Miami-Dade County 's homeless population at 4,235, but this is due to a higher general population (6 million; 0.08%) and still a lower prevalence ...
Hundreds of thousands of people in Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties have been ordered to evacuate low-lying and coastal areas as Tropical Storm Idalia makes its way toward Florida’s ...
Eagle Lake Park picnic shelter. Eagle Lake Park is a county-level park located in Largo, Florida.It is a 163-acre preserve located in a suburban district, consisting of two parcels of land Pinellas County purchased in 1998 and 2006, respectively.