Hundreds of people have been killed after the historic Hurricane Ian decimated Florida, a sheriff in the hardest-hit region revealed early Thursday, September 29.
The death toll is expected to increase as Floridians wake up to assess the true extent of the damage.
“This is a life-changing event for all of us,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told Good Morning America today.
“I don’t have confirmed numbers — I definitely know the fatalities are in the hundreds,” he added.
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“So far, confirmed in the hundreds,” he said, noting that conditions were too dire for his officers and other rescuers to get a true sense of the disaster.
“There are thousands of people that are waiting to be rescued. And again, cannot get a true assessment until we’re actually on scene assessing each scene, and we can’t access people that’s the problem,” he said.
