{"id":50167,"date":"2024-09-24T21:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=50167"},"modified":"2024-09-24T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:46:39","slug":"polk-county-updates-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/09\/24\/polk-county-updates-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County updates &#038; information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"d5e4de\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23counties-polk-800x600-1-jpg.webp?resize=800%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50168 not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #d5e4de; width:357px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23counties-polk-800x600-1-jpg.webp?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23counties-polk-800x600-1-jpg.webp?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23counties-polk-800x600-1-jpg.webp?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County Evacuations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County does not have a mandatory evacuation policy.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County Closings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All Polk County public schools and offices will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 26, and Friday, Sept. 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All after-school programs and sports activities will be canceled or rescheduled. All after-school events will conclude by 6 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County Shelters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>No shelters have been announced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County Sandbags:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>There will be sandbags available throughout the county on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the following locations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mulberry\/South Lakeland \u2013 Loyce E. Harpe Park, 500 W. Carter Road, Mulberry<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lakeland \u2013 8970 N. Campbell Road, Lakeland<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fort Meade \u2013 1061 NE 9th St., Fort Meade<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frostproof \u2013 350 County Road 630A, Frostproof<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Auburndale \u2013 1701 Holt Road, Auburndale<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dundee \u2013 805 Dr. Martin Luther King St. SW, Dundee<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Poinciana Park \u2013 5109 Allegheny Road, Kissimmee 34759<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Each household will be able to get a maximum of 10 sandbags. Residents will need to bring a driver&#8217;s license that shows a local address.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County Schools:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>All Polk County public schools and offices will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 26, and Friday, Sept. 27.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Polk County More Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polk-county.net\/public-safety\/emergency-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here for more information from Polk County Emergency Management<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polk County Evacuations: Polk County does not have a mandatory evacuation policy.&nbsp; Polk County Closings: All Polk County public schools and offices will be closed on Thursday, Sept. 26, and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"694","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":50168,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/23counties-polk-800x600-1-jpg.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[9848],"class_list":["post-50167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-polk-county-updates-information"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50169,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50167\/revisions\/50169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}