Meanwhile, in South Carolina, where Ian’s second U.S. “We made a couple of rescues where we had to actually walk from the fire station about two blocks to rescue a couple that was stuck in their house that was flooding rapidly,” DiMaria said Thursday on NBC’s “Today.” Naples Fire Chief Pete DiMaria said that his firefighters had to wade through the water to make rescues on foot. Along Interstate 75, the main highway connecting the Miami and Naples areas, utility trucks from Texas - flanked by pickup trucks with flashing yellow beacons - made their way west early Thursday toward the area of southwest Florida ravaged by Hurricane Ian.Īlso along that path were pickup trucks loaded with generators, gas cans and other storm recovery supplies. “Watching the water from my condo in the heart of downtown, watching that water rise and just flood out all the stores on the first floor, it was heartbreaking,” Anderson said. Rescues have been underway, he said, but “we still cannot access many of the people in the waterways, bridges are compromised, and it’s a real real rough road ahead.”įort Myers Mayor Kevin Anderson told NBC’s “Today” that he has not been told of any deaths in the city, though there may have been some elsewhere in the metro area.Īnderson said that he has been in the area since the 1970s and that this was by far the worst storm he has ever witnessed. Sheriff Carmine Marceno told ABC’s “Good Morning America” that there had been thousands of calls to 911 and that he believed the death toll would be “in the hundreds.” In Lee County, home to the city of Fort Myers, rescue officials said they were overwhelmed with calls for rescues and feared significant fatalities. ![]() Their patio was torn apart, with some sections missing, and trees were down in their back yard, but their own roof and house stayed mostly intact.įORT MYERS, Fla. “She grabbed my hand and said, ‘I am scared, too, but it is going to be OK.’” Bartley said her 4-year-old daughter gave her courage.
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