The Charlotte County Office of Emergency Management, in partnership with Public Works, has installed more than 12,900 reflective decals on stop signs across unincorporated parts of the county.
The three-inch-wide vinyl bands are color and letter-coded to mark the county’s five hurricane evacuation zones, making it easier for people to identify their zone during a tropical storm or hurricane.
Watch Fox 4’s Alex Orenczuk report on the markers:
Know your zone: Charlotte County stop signs now display evacuation markers
Zone A, marked in red, covers the lowest-lying areas and is the first to evacuate. Zone B is orange, followed by Zone C in yellow, Zone D in green and Zone E in purple. Together, Zones A and B account for about two-thirds of the county’s population…