The Command Post
Global Recon
August 14, 2004
Reports From Florida (Updated)

Orlanda Sentinel has a blog that's tracking hurricane news:

8:41 a.m.
A fire station in Point Sienna was one of Hurricane Charley's first victims in Osceola County, where part of a garage roof caved in, possibly on top of one of Station No. 45's engines, according to an Osceola County spokesperson.

Looks like they are updating frequently.

AP reports on a widely distrubuted story (the stacks of bodies)

Charlotte County authorites said there were several fatalities in mobile homes, but earlier characterizations of bodies being stacked up are being discounted.

Mother Nature, while devastating at times, does present some incredible photo ops:

chbanks.jpg The outer band of Hurricane Charley makes its way across downtown Orlando.(COURTESY OF BRIAN DUQUETTE/Orlando Sentinel).

More precise reports of fatalities are coming in now:

An electrocuted woman in Daytona Beach is Florida's fourth confirmed victim of Hurricane Charley. That brings the death toll to eight in the United States, Cuba and Jamaica.

Daytona Beach police on patrol in the dark found a woman lying at the bottom of a power pole in a residential area. She was on fire from the waist down, and a downed power line was touching one of her feet. The victim's name has not been released.

One death each has been reported in Lee, Sarasota and Orange counties.

The Charlotte County director of emergency management said there are "a number of fatalities" at a mobile home park in Punta Gorda where residents ignored evacuation orders.

Wayne Sallade said deputies were standing guard over bodies because the area was inaccessible to ambulances.

Posted by Michele at August 14, 2004 09:41 AM | TrackBack
Comments

Local news SNN-New 6, is reporting at least 60 dead in the mobile home area cited in the report. Reefer trucks are apparently involved to serve as a temporary morgue.

JB Sarasota

Posted by: JFB [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 14, 2004 10:20 AM

Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (Click here should you choose to sign out.)

As you post your comment, please mind our simple comment policy: we welcome all perspectives, but require that comments be both civil and respectful. We also ask that you avoid the extensive use of profanity, racist terms (neither of which we consider civil or respectful), and other boorish language.

We reserve the right to delete any comment, and to prohibit you from commenting on this site, if we feel you have broached this policy. As a courtesy, we will first send you an email noting a violation so you understand the boundaries. This will occur only once, however, and should we ban you from our comment forums we expect that ban to be permanent.

We also will frown upon those who suggest that we ban other individuals for voicing unpopular opinions, should those opinions be voiced in a civil and respectful manner. The point of our comment threads is to provide a forum for spirited though civil and respectful discourse … it is not to provide a forum in which everyone will agree with your point of view.

If you can live by these rules, welcome aboard. If not, then we’re sorry it didn’t work out, and thanks for visiting The Command Post.


Remember me?