On their first round of Hurricane Ian rescue missions, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s elite Urban Search and Rescue team walked for miles, door-to-door, through the remnants of towns on Florida’s Gulf Coast, making their way through busted concrete and 10-foot-high piles of splintered wood framing. Military helicopters had dropped off the team, known as Florida Task Force 1, onto Sanibel and Captiva, island communities inundated a day earlier by what Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called a “biblical storm surge.”…
Miami-Dade's Elite Rescue Team Scours Islands Hit by Hurricane Ian
