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LIVE BLOG: Updates on Hurricane Milton
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Sarasota spring training stadium is now housing emergency response providers

From the road, looking at the entrance of a spring training baseball stadium, where trailers housing emergency workers is set up.
Tom Bayles
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WGCU Public Media
The spring training home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles is now housing emergency response providers following Hurricane Ian's landfall in Southwest Florida

Big piles of mostly tree limbs and other dead vegetation are still awaiting pickup in some neighborhoods.

The spring training home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles is now housing emergency response providers following Hurricane Ian's landfall in Southwest Florida.

Ed Smith Stadium in northern Sarasota is the Orioles' blocks-long complex featuring a 8,000-seat baseball field for spring training games, several other practice fields, and grass-covered parking lots.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency brought in the white mobile homes in recent days.

Sarasota is about 50 miles north of where the eye of Ian made landfall at Cayo Costa. Peak gusts in Sarasota Bay reached 83 mph at a maritime marker less than two miles from the stadium.

Big piles of mostly tree limbs and other dead vegetation line both sides of the streets in most Northern Sarasota County neighborhoods on Saturday, as they are still awaiting pickup.

Standing by a pond, and looking at a row of temporary trailers where emergency workers are living
Tom Bayles
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WGCU Public Media
The Federal Emergency Management Agency brought in white mobile homes to the Sarasota location to house emergency workers followning Hurricane Ian.

Sarasota County schools resume classes Monday. Administrators have already sent several automated messages to parents warning that debris still in the streets from Hurricane Ian, as well as pre-existing staffing shortages and a staff absentee problem, may cause buses to arrive to school late. Parents are being urged to drive their children to school if possible.

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