Milton shreds roof of Tropicana Field, home of baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays

Hurricane Milton’s powerful winds overnight Wednesday severely damaged the roof of the Tampa Bay Rays’ home ballpark, Tropicana Field, which had been set for use by workers responding to the storm.

Overhead TV images of the domed stadium in St. Petersburg showed big swaths of its paneled roof were left tattered in the wake of 100-plus mph winds.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the stadium’s interior suffered any major damage.

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As recently as noon on Tuesday, the Florida Division of Emergency Management said it was “establishing a 10,000-person base camp at Tropicana Field to support ongoing debris operations and post-landfall responders.”