Last night, Florida National Guard Brig.We expect that throughout the day, the Florida Guard will be engaged in a multitude of missions including search and rescue and route clearance operations. Florida National Guard members are conducting incident awareness and assessment missions this morning in Sarasota, De Soto, Charlotte, Collier and Lee Counties.Search and Rescue crews rallied at the Fort Myers Sports Complex and have been running operations for the past 5 hours.The National Guard and the Coast Guard are landing helicopters on barrier islands to perform search and rescue.There are 8 USAR teams with more than 800 team members performing search and rescue. Urban Search and Rescue Team 2 was the first on-site and the Coast Guard made dozens of rescues overnight. Since 1 a.m., search and rescue operations have been underway.The FDOT said this about search and rescue operations across the state: While searching for him, deputies found his flashlight, then spotted the victim unresponsive in a canal behind the home,” according to a press release from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. after the victim’s wife reported he disappeared after heading outside. “Deputies responded to a home on Poinciana Lane near Lake Bethel around 1 a.m. Volusia County law enforcement reported an overnight death of a 72-year-old Deltona man who had gone outside during the storm to drain his pool. Wednesday when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a pickup truck.Īfter a death is confirmed to be hurricane-related, district medical examiners report the death to the Florida Medical Examiners Commission, which is staffed by the FDLE. The FDLE had no further information, but a Florida Highway Patrol report said a man from Howey-In-The-Hills was driving east on County Road 48 12:30 p.m. Two hospitals were forced to divert patients because of flooding, Sullivan said.Ī 38-year-old Lake County man who died when his car hydroplaned is listed as the first official fatality of Hurricane Ian, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has confirmed.

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