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Florence, SC & the Pee Dee Region
Your Community Guide
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If something urgent is happening right now, you don't need a directory. You need one number. Here they are, organized by what's happening.
Call 911 now if you or someone near you is in immediate physical danger.
Emergency Number
911
If someone is in immediate, life-threatening danger — a medical emergency, a fire, an active threat, or a crime in progress — call 911. Operators are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Stay on the line, stay calm, and answer their questions as best you can.
Act now. Don't wait.
You are not alone, and you deserve support. These lines are free, confidential, and available 24/7.
Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
988
Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Free, confidential, and available 24/7. Trained counselors answer, day or night.
Call or text anytime. You will reach a real person.
Crisis Text Line
741741
Prefer to text? Text the word HELLO to 741741 to reach the Crisis Text Line. A trained crisis counselor will text you back, confidentially.
Texting may feel easier — that's okay.
If you're being hurt — or fear you will be — by a partner or someone in your home, help is available right now.
Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault
24-hour crisis line for Florence, Darlington, Marion, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Dillon & Williamsburg counties
Toll-Free (any county)
Florence
County Sexual Assault & Family Violence Ctr.
The coalition provides a confidential emergency shelter along with counseling and legal advocacy. If you're not able to speak freely right now, the toll-free line is available regardless of what county you're calling from.
If you suspect a child or vulnerable adult is being abused or neglected, report it — it's confidential.
SC Abuse & Neglect Reporting Hotline
1-888-CARE4US
1-888-227-3487
South Carolina's statewide Abuse & Neglect Reporting Hotline covers both children and vulnerable adults, available 24 hours a day. Trained staff take every report seriously.
Protected & Confidential
Available 24/7
Stay informed, stay safe, and know where to turn for shelter and recovery help.
Florence County Emergency Management coordinates local emergency response and evacuation information. Visit fcemd.org for current alerts and instructions.
fcemd.orgDial 211 for United Way's 24/7 disaster resource line, covering shelter, food, and recovery help before, during, and after a storm.
Free, confidential, available day and night.
If you have a NOAA weather radio, the Florence area frequency is 162.550 MHz. Weather radios keep you informed even when power and cell service go out.
Keep fresh batteries or a backup power source handy.
If what you need is food, housing, or financial assistance rather than an emergency response, we've got you covered there too.
Visit our full Local Resources directory for food banks, shelters, utility assistance, and more — all the ongoing help in Florence County in one place.
About this page
We built this page because Florence didn't have one place that organized emergency numbers by what's actually happening to someone.
We are not a crisis service, a shelter, or a government agency. We're a local information site that believes getting the right number in front of the right person fast matters.
If you represent an organization and something here needs correcting, please contact us right away.