Five days after Hurricane Ian, Florida continues to heal its wounds. The governor of the state, Ron DeSantis, announced the significant human resources mobilized to help the affected populations, while the official death toll reached 109 on Tuesday, most drowned and most elderly.
“We have more search and rescue teams in urban areas … than there has ever been in one place since 9/11,” the Republican governor said during a public address Monday in Cape Coral, who is among the towns most affected by the hurricane.
“It’s a massive mobilization, it’s made a big difference and it’s certainly helpful to a lot of people,” said Ron DeSantis.
21 teams mobilized in New York in 2001
Ron DeSantis did not accurately communicate the number of teams and people mobilized in the different regions of Florida affected by Hurricane Ian.
In 2001, in the hours and days after the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, at least 21 search-and-rescue teams worked at the disaster site, in addition to the four sent to the site by the Pentagon and one other officiant. about the accident of the plane hijacked by passengers and crashed in the state of Pennsylvania. The action of the New York teams had made it possible to save 20 people from the rubble of the two towers.
Source: BFM TV
