Florida legal aid organizations were putting out a call Tuesday for more volunteers and scrambling to help Hurricane Helene victims as they watched a second deadly hurricane in less than two weeks draw a bead on the Gulf Coast.

Legal aid offices in Central and Southwest Florida were temporarily closed Tuesday as mandatory evacuations were being ordered ahead of Hurricane Milton’s projected landfall in the Tampa Bay region late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.

At Bay Area Legal Services, Inc., Disaster Relief Team managing attorney Jason Susalla said the group was experiencing “a significant influx of applicants for disaster-related legal assistance” on its statewide helpline.

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