According to Rear Admiral Brendan McPherson, the US Coast Guard has saved more than 275 individuals in Florida, but the post-storm situation is still quite difficult.
Hurricane in Florida
Hurricane in Florida
He mentioned that local and state agencies, as well as urban search and rescue teams from FEMA, were conducting hundreds of additional rescues.
Hurricane in Florida Damage
Hurricane in Florida Damage
"We're flying and working in places you wouldn't recognize. No street signs are present. They don't appear to be what they once did.
Buildings that once served as community markers are no longer standing, he told CNN on Friday.
The majority of the victims, he said, "are not critically hurt and they're not in imminent trouble, but they're trapped."
They are "trapped on islands," he said. "More crucially, those regions that weren't islands before and they are now encircled by water."
Man-made islands that have been there for some time and are surrounded by water are one type of island that they are on.
According to Claudette Smith, the sheriff's office's public relations officer, Charlotte County is in critical need of aid despite the support it has already gotten in the wake of the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ian.