Hurricane Preparation

Lee County is encouraging residents to prepare their yards for potential storms while hurricane season is still young. Trimming trees and branches, thinning foliage and removing items that can be picked up by the wind are recommended by the county.

Hurricane Season is here. Experts are predicting an above-average storm season. Punta Gorda, still recovering from previous storms, is learning from past lessons.

One year after three hurricanes passed near and through Southwest Florida, Lee County is doing its parts to protect itself before another storm makes landfall.

The Lee County Public Safety Center, formerly the Lee Emergency Operations Center, opened Thursday following a ribbon cutting ceremony. The Public Safety Center features a second building attached to the existing Emergency Operations Center building.

Attendees to the 2025 General Session of the Governor’s Hurricane Conference held at the Palm Beach County Convention Center heard insights from emergency management leaders across Florida and beyond.

Noticeably absent from the 39th annual hurricane conference for emergency management leaders are federal workers

Southwest Floridians are getting time Tuesday to make final preparations for Hurricane Milton. But some people are frustrated by lack of gas, and by lack of knowledge over what to bring to an emergency shelter.

Two Florida legislators from opposite sides of the aisle came to Florida Gulf Coast University this week to discuss proposed legislation.

A public groundbreaking will be Nov. 2 for an expansion project at the Lee County Emergency Operations Center on Ortiz Avenue.The project entails a two-story addition to the existing Emergency Operations Center, which will be renamed the Lee County Public Safety Center when it’s completed.The event at 2675 Ortiz Ave., Fort Myers, will include comments from county commissioners and other officials. The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted to award the contract for the 36,873 square-foot expansion in September.

Floridians are still picking up what was lost a year ago during Hurricane Ian, a deadly and destructive Category 4 storm. The Collier Community Foundation is one of the leading organizations providing support to Ian victims.