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St. Pete Fire Rescue is making it easy for local residents to know how to prepare for a hurricane as hurricane season approaches. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/gguy44)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL St. Petersburg residents will get a free hurricane preparedness kit at the upcoming Drive-Thru Hurricane Expo at a local recreation center.
St. Pete Fire Rescue and Pinellas County Emergency Management will give free kits to the first 500 cars that show up to the expo May 22. The kit includes information and supplies that have been donated by community organizations.
Hurricane season begins June 1 to Nov. 30. The World Meteorological Organization s Hurricane Committee recently released this season s names of hurricanes. This year s list of names, last used in 2015, includes two new names Elsa and Julian after two tropical storms, Erika and Joaquin, caused so much damage in 2015 that their names were removed by the organization, the Miami Patch reported.