'It's been remarkable, the resiliency, really...every day there's another story of just an amazing group of people that have come down.'
A member of the Florida National Guard helps stack emergency supplies that arrived by boat during flooding along the Peace River in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Arcadia, Fla., Oct. 3, 2022.slammed Florida, search-and-rescue efforts are still underway and the death toll continues to rise.
MAJ. GEN. JAMES O. EIFERT: Well, they're making great progress. We have about 17 urban search-and-rescue teams scattered throughout. Now they're kind of focused on the primary counties of Charlotte and Lee County.
EIFERT: Well, the biggest challenges easily have been the outages of water and power. So especially on the islands like Sanibel, I visited it yesterday with the governor and it's hard to describe the destruction. We passed over a couple of times on helicopters, but you can't really get a feel for it until you actually get on the ground and you see just the amount of debris.
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