Hurricane Milton sets record number of tornadoes in Florida

The death toll has risen to 14uragano Miltonincluding six victims in St. Lucie County on the Atlantic coast of Floridawhere authorities say the tornadoes occurred. This was reported by the broadcaster NBC News, explaining that a record number of tornadoes caused extensive damage to homes and that approximately 11 million people were at risk of flash and river flooding. Additionally, more than 2.6 million people in Florida were left without electricity due to the outage, according to PowerOutage.us. Before Milton, which was downgraded to a Category 3 storm, Florida had already been hit by Hurricane Helene.

To deal with the emergency, the American president Joe Biden deployed thousands of federal personnel to the affected areas, including over a thousand Coast Guard members. The Red Cross said it is working to provide support to 83,000 people who have found shelter in Florida shelters. Florida governor Ron DeSantis explained that a thousand people were rescued by personnel deployed throughout the state.