Orange County encourages residents to take steps to be prepared for hurricane season.

This free, one-day event will offer preparedness information. Free preparedness items, including weather radios and first aid kits, will be distributed while supplies last.

Attendees will learn from emergency response and recovery experts from the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Representatives will answer questions and provide information on how to survive and deal with floods, high wind damage and property loss.

Participants will also learn how to track storms, pack a disaster kit and prepare an emergency plan for their pets.

Hurricane season begins June 1 and ends November 30, 2016.