{"id":60095,"date":"2024-10-06T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T21:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=60095"},"modified":"2024-10-06T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T21:07:46","slug":"lee-county-declares-local-state-of-emergency-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2024\/10\/lee-county-declares-local-state-of-emergency-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County declares local state of emergency on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lee County has declared a local state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Milton&#8217;s impacts on Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-1024x538.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60096\" style=\"width:447px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-1024x538.avif 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-300x158.avif 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-768x403.avif 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/download-jpeg.avif 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>A level two state of emergency was activated for Lee County at 12 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County offices will be closing at 12 p.m. on Monday and may reopen on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents should anticipate evacuation orders beginning on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shelters are set to open on Monday. All shelters are said to be opened on Tuesday. You can find specific locations&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.leegov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helene debris pickup will continue on Monday, and possibly into Tuesday depending on the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trash is still scheduled to be picked up at its regular time on Monday. There will be no pickup the rest of the week until announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County has declared a local state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Milton&#8217;s impacts on Southwest Florida. A level two state of emergency was activated for Lee County at 12&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":60096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[2832],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60095"}],"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=60095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60097,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60095\/revisions\/60097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}