After leading a number of residents out of high water earlier Wednesday, first responders with the Naples Fire-Rescue Department had to make one final rescue: their own.
Naples Firefighters Wade Through Floodwater to Salvage Equipment From Inundated Station
After leading a number of residents out of high water earlier Wednesday, first responders with the Naples Fire-Rescue Department had to make one final rescue — their own.Hurricane Ian made landfall on Florida’s west coast Wednesday afternoon, turning streets into rivers, flooding building and homes and leaving a destructive path in its wake.
In Naples, one of the hardest-hit areas by the Category 4 storm, the storm surge inundated a local fire station, partly submerging fire trucks in several feet of water. After leading a number of residents out of high water earlier Wednesday, first responders with the Naples Fire-Rescue Department had to make one final rescue — their own.shows firefighters making a last ditch effort to save equipment from the rising flood waters. At one point, the fire chief notes that one of the trucks started smoking and called for moving it outside the station so that it wouldn't burn down the building should it catch on fire.
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