As Florida braces for Milton, non-English speakers face steep challenges

The World

As Hurricane Milton approaches, authorities in Florida are providing evacuation orders, emergency information and shelter locations in Spanish and Haitian Creole, as well as in English. But Florida residents speak more than 130 different languages. And non-English speakers face innumerable challenges, as Adriana Menéndez of the Rural Women’s Health Project in Gainesville, tells host Carolyn Beeler.

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