Free MREs At The Trop: Hurricane Irma Recovery

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — St. Petersburg area residents struggling to get their hands on food and water after Hurricane Irma blew through town will get some help Thursday evening.

Feeding Tampa Bay has plans to deliver a truckload of meals ready to eat, or MREs, Thursday night. The nonprofit group will also give out bananas and water, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. (For more hurricane news or local news from Florida, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from St. Pete Patch, and click here to find your local Florida Patch. If you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

The distribution is set to take place from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at Tropicana Field’s Lot 6.

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