Category: Recovery
ECAT fully operational on Friday, May 2
Representatives from Escambia County Area Transit (ECAT) are pleased to announce the system will return to full service Friday, May 2, 2014. All vehicles have…
City of Pensacola emergency update
As of 2:00 PM on Thursday, May 1, most City facilities are open, including City Hall. Normal operations have resumed at Pensacola International Airport and…
Escambia Elections Office resume operations
The Escambia County Supervisor of Elections has resumed normal operations. The following is an update on the activities scheduled for Friday, May 2: The voter…
Escambia County Schools Reopen May 2, 2014
Superintendent Malcolm Thomas announces the Escambia County School District will resume normal operations on Friday, May 2, 2014. All schools will be in session on…
Emergency contact info
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 01, 2014 Contact: Tamara W. Fountain, Communications Administrator (850) 436.5627 Emergency Point of Contact The City participates in the County’s Emergency…
City of Pensacola garbage, recycling, and trash collection operating as usual
Press Release: The City of Pensacola Sanitation Department will continue with normally scheduled garbage, recycling, and trash collection. City Sanitation has been working tirelessly picking…
Independent News will be out on the stands starting at noon
Because of the state of emergency yesterday, our papers will delivered late today. We expect to have them on the stands starting at noon. Thank…
Today we assess the damage
Some in the media are declaring that Pensacola received more rainfall in a 24-hour period than any Florida city ever, 15-24 inches. The impact has…
Photos of flooding in the city of Gulf Breeze
Here are some of the photos we received from inside the Gulf Breeze city limits:
All University of West Florida campuses to resume normal operations tomorrow
All University of West Florida campuses will resume normal operations on Thursday, May 1, 2014. University officials are actively working to revise the final exam…
ECAT bus service cancelled for Thursday
Escambia County was placed under a local state of emergency as a response to the severe weather front that has impacted the County. Overnight, ECAT…
Gov. Rick Scott sees damage to downtown Pensacola (photos)
Gov. Rick Scott toured Palafox Place with Sheriff David Morgan and Mayor Ashton Hayward. He stopped and talked with several business owners. He told me…
ECUA: Water Service Interruption and Pending Precautionary Boil Water Notice
Water service is temporarily interrupted to the following areas due to a water main break, and a precautionary boil water notice will be in effect…
Gov. Scott tours area, gets briefed on the damage (photo)
Scott flanked by County Commissioners Wilson Robertson, Grover Robinson and Lumon May, Sheriff David Morgan and Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward.
As flood water recedes in downtown Pensacola, strong odor of sewer in some businesses
The businesses in the first block and a half of Palafox Place were flooded overnight. Nick Zangari of New York Nick’s has standing water in…
