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Pinellas
County Emergency Management |
Find your evacuation level Knowing your evacuation level is one of the most important first steps to preparing for hurricane season.
Weather
Report Guide  Promoting
Hazardous Weather Awareness in Florida.
The Pinellas
County Official Hurricane Guide: Surviving
the Storm. This
year’s guide has even more of everything
you need to know about preparing your
home, family and pets before, during and
after a storm. From useful phone numbers
and websites to a family plan and disaster
survival kit, it’s the guide you’ll
want to keep at your fingertips from June
through November. Hurricane
Guidebook
 Sign
Up NOW If You Have Special Needs
Planning ahead for hurricane season is
especially important for residents with
special needs. The Pinellas County Special
Needs/Evacuation Assistance Program is
for individuals who have no other evacuation
plan and need to go to a public shelter
during an emergency. more>> |
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Sign up for the electronic newsletter. Hurricane and Safety News is a resource for the latest Pinellas-specific information about hurricanes, severe weather and other disasters. Get it monthly by e-mail! Sign up now! |
Be Prepared…Survive the Storm
Pinellas County Emergency Management will send you up-to-the-minute emergency reports on your cell phone via text messages through the Community Notification Service.
- To sign up call 1-888-689-8905 from the device you wish to register and enter your zip code. You must be able to make a call and receive text messages from the device, such as a cell phone.
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If you don’t have FREE text messaging on your cell phone, you will be charged between 5 and 10 cents for text messages for this service. Check with your cell phone provider.
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Community Notification Service does not work with a pre-paid cell phone.
Host Homes Program
Providing information for organizations to establish their own volunteer host home program to provide a safe shelter for their members or employees. Host Homes Program |
Pinellas County Emergency Management offers local businesses and organizations the opportunity to receive timely and detailed emergency information electronically. If you are a Pinellas-based business, agency or organization and interested in being notified of significant weather threats or other emergencies, please contact Emergency Management at 727-464-5550 and ask about this service. |
Did you escape the flooding of Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
Did you hide from the powerful winds of Hurricane Charley in 2004?
Or, maybe you or a friend, neighbor or relative has firsthand experience of any one of the scores of hurricanes that made landfall throughout the Atlantic basin. If so, we want to hear from you! More >> |
Emergency Management Services:
- Develop,
review, and enhance the County's
disaster preparedness and recovery
plans for "All Hazards".
- Distribute
and coordinate those plans on a
County-wide basis.
- Operate,
maintain, and enhance the County's
Emergency Operations Center(EOC).
- Manage
and coordinate County-wide response
to, and recovery from, natural and
technological disasters.
- Coordinate
the County's disaster response/recovery
needs with higher levels of government.
- Review
and approve health care facility
plans as required by Florida Statute
252.
- Serve
as coordination point for federal
disaster relief programs.
- Develop
and deliver public information and
education programs about disaster
preparedness.
- Provide
administrative and logistical support
to the County's Hazardous Materials
Response Team.
- Plan,
conduct, and critique exercises
that test and improve preparedness.
- Develop,
distribute, and provide instruction
on guidelines for businesses and
industry disaster planning.
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