Mayor Ken Welch recommended on Tuesday that residents around three construction sites in downtown St. Petersburg and one in the Carillon area should relocate or take other precautions because of safety concerns with high-rise cranes as Hurricane Milton approaches.

Downtown St. Petersburg-area residents learned of a new hazard from Hurricane Milton hours before the storm's landfall: construction cranes that could fail under 100-mph winds.

St. Petersburg issues a safety advisory due to Hurricane Milton, highlighting the risk of tower cranes in construction sites amid growing winds.

A construction project on Tennessee St. in College Town has two large cranes that won't be coming down ahead of Hurricane Helene. The company says the cranes will not collapse from heavy winds.