The death toll from Hurricane Ian appears to be at least two already, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday, with a massive rescue effort underway to retrieve more people.
Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno told Good Morning America earlier Thursday that the region was devastated by the storm and that he believed there to be hundreds of fatalities. "I know we have had some deceased – I don’t know the number," the sheriff said, adding that an assessment was ongoing.
In the case of Sanibel, the route on and off the island was destroyed by the storm, complicating those efforts.
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