that number could rise even higher as search and rescue crews work to reach cutoff areas, removing debris from destroyed homes and businesses along florida s southwest coastline and we re learning that miami-dade fire rescue crews are conducting helicopter evacuations on sanibel island. boris sanchez is there in fort myers, florida. boris, you just spoke with the lee county sheriff a few moments ago. what was said? reporter: fred, there have been a lot of questions today about the timing of when lee county ordered evacuations. we re in lee county right now in fort myers. what we ve learned is lee county ordered its first evacuations more than a day after forecasts met the county s criteria despite the fact the county has an emergency plan that suggests evacuations should have happened earlier. the county s comprehensive emergency ma or more of water would indicate the need for hurricane evacuations in the most vulnerable areas. a lot of lee county is a vulnerable area. one
that responds to mass fatality incidents has deployed resources to assist medical malmers in lee and charlotte counties. officials in lee county are macing mountaining questions about the timing of this evacuation orders. the first ones issued less than 24 hours before the hurricane ian landfall despite evacuations should have been happened sooner. i ve been on the ground in lee county documenting the devastation and today matt le shay today in bonita springs. here is a look at what i saw. did you ride out the storm or anything? did i ride out the storm? . the water was up to half way to the front door with the waves crashing in the house. and our neighbors got stuck here and they had to safe harbor in our house. it was six inches of mud. i m going to see if they could salvage it. and we re just the back is worst than the front. the back is blown out. can we take a look? yeah. i said i leave in paradise and there was a roof over my head and i was literally in th
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