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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A 14-year-old was rescued aft Hurricane Milton's floodwaters trapped him connected a floating portion of a obstruction successful the mediate of Tampa, Florida.
Video published by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office showed Sheriff Chad Chronister and a lawman uncovering the lad floating connected a thoroughfare successful beforehand of a tiny market store.
"Stay close there," the rescue unit told the lad arsenic they spun their vessel astir to drawback him.
Speaking with Melissa Marino of NewsNation affiliate WFLA, Chronister explained that the lad had evacuated from Hurricane Milton and was staying astatine a friend's house.
However, erstwhile the lad tried to locomotion backmost location aft the storm, helium underestimated however heavy the h2o was and could not aquatics good capable to get through.
"It was virtually retired of a castaway movie, him laying connected apical of a fence, waving astatine us," Chronister said. "Out of breath, gasping for aerial arsenic we pulled him up."
Once the lad was pulled retired of the floodwater, helium was helped to coagulated crushed earlier continuing location safely.
That peculiar vicinity was not successful an evacuation zone, Chronister acknowledged. Still, it suffered what helium had referred to arsenic "unprecedented" flooding.
Hillsborough County Fire Rescue reported that 350 911 calls were made betwixt 9:30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:30 a.m. Thursday. However, it is not known precisely however galore radical person been rescued yet.
