{"id":303426,"date":"2026-06-11T02:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303426\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T02:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T02:49:18","slug":"st-petersburg-hosting-second-saturday-sandbag-pickup-as-hurricane-season-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303426\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg hosting Second Saturday sandbag pickup as hurricane season begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg announced residents can pick up free sandbags during the city\u2019s Second Saturday distribution event this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place Saturday, June 13, from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Pavement and Traffic Operations Building, located at 1744 9th Ave. N.<\/p>\n<p>The city offers this monthly pickup to help residents prepare before a storm.<\/p>\n<p>Sandbags are available year-round at this location, Monday through Friday, and on the second Saturday of each month from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Each household can pick up up to 10 sandbags after showing proof of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Staff will be available to answer questions and help seniors or others who may not be able to fill and load their own bags.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ERIK.WAXLER.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pasco mother asks county to keep roadside memorial honoring son killed in crash<\/p>\n<p>A Pasco County mother is asking county leaders not to remove a roadside memorial honoring her 4-year-old son, who was killed in a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco mother asks county to keep roadside memorial honoring son killed in crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Petersburg announced residents can pick up free sandbags during the city\u2019s Second Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1846,596,107032,17340,202,204,203,199,201,200,1272,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-303426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-hurricane","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-sandbags","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-storms","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}