{"id":12316,"date":"2012-08-26T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2012-08-26T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T12:16:16","slug":"mandatory-evacuation-in-parts-of-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/mandatory-evacuation-in-parts-of-lee-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Evacuation in <br>Parts of Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/mandatory-evacuation-in-parts-of-lee-county\/her-sign\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12317\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12317\" title=\"HER Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HER-Sign-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HER-Sign-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HER-Sign-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/HER-Sign.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Lee County EOC has ordered the mandatory evacuation of Fort Myers Beach and the barrier islands \u2013 including Big and Little Hickory Island, San Carlos Island and Bonita Beach.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Red Cross has announced that evacuation shelters will be open tomorrow: In Lee County from 12 p.m. \u2013 East Lee High, Varsity Lakes Middle, South Fort Myers High &amp; Island Coast High; in Collier from 10 a.m. \u2013 Immokalee High and Middle, Golden Gate High, Cypress Palm Middle, Palmetto Ridge High &amp; North Collier Regional Park.<\/p>\n<p>South Fort Myers High will be the County\u2019s pet shelter, Harborside Convention Center will be open tomorrow at 11AM for Special Needs patients and transportation can be provided by contacting the EOC.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Emergency Operations Center announces all County Government Offices in Lee County will be closed on Monday. In addition, all bridge tolls will be suspended as of 10:00 a.m.<br \/>\nSunday until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Gazette found this handy map that shows Lee County\u2019s Evacuation Zones. Lee EOC tells us *IF* an evacuation is needed, it would be for parts of Zone A. Be prepared, and we\u2019ll let you know what EOC decides when they make the call on Sunday morning.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.leeeoc.com\/Documents\/EvacZones_ShelterList_2012_AllHazardsGuide_English_17X27.pdf\">Evacuation Map<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County EOC has ordered the mandatory evacuation of Fort Myers Beach and the barrier islands \u2013 including Big and Little Hickory Island, San Carlos Island and Bonita Beach.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}