Hundreds of Florida residents urged to evacuate

Monday, June 23, 2003

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Emergency officials urged residents to evacuate more than 600 homes downstream from Lake Manatee on Sunday as excess water from the reservoir, swollen by days of torrential rain, gushed through a dam's flood gates.

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