{"id":423513,"date":"2026-10-09T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423513\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:10:11","slug":"hurricane-isaias-strengthens-to-category-three-as-evacuations-orders-issued-along-us-gulf-coast-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423513\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Isaias strengthens to category three as evacuations orders issued along US Gulf Coast – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Get out NOW!’: Isaias prompts evacuation orders in parts of Florida and Alabamapublished at 17:49 BST<\/p>\n

17:49 BST<\/p>\n

\"ResidentsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Residents in Pensacola, Florida board up the windows in front of their home<\/p>\n

As we mentioned earlier, there parts of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency.<\/a><\/p>\n

In parts of Alabama and Florida, there are also mandatory evacuation orders in place, which direct people to leave a specific area due to an immediate danger.<\/p>\n

Alabama<\/p>\n

Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey announced mandatory evacuation orders for all non-residents, tourists and visitors in key counties likely to be heavily affected by the storm, including all of Baldwin County, and parts of Mobile County. <\/p>\n

Residents of the most vulnerable coastal areas of Mobile are also encouraged to voluntarily evacuate, “before conditions deteriorate”, the county’s emergency response agency said on its web page.<\/p>\n

Florida<\/p>\n

Local officials issued mandatory evacuation orders across a handful of coastal counties along the Florida Panhandle, including Escambia County, where Pensacola is, as well as Okaloosa County, Walton County and Franklin County. <\/p>\n

Florida Senator Rick Scott encouraged residents in designated areas to evacuate as soon as possible, as he warned in a social media post: “DO NOT WAIT! Get out NOW!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘Get out NOW!’: Isaias prompts evacuation orders in parts of Florida and Alabamapublished at 17:49 BST 17:49 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-423513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423513","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=423513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}