Overnight Wednesday, an MH-60 helicopter crew based at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater rescued seven people in four separate incidents from southwest Florida to Gulfport.
The Clearwater station sent over 100 service members, four C-130 aircraft and five MH-60 helicopters to Palm Beach in preparation for the major hurricane. Wednesday night, a local search and rescue crew was first dispatched to Ft. Myers to save a man whose boat ran aground deep in a mangrove forest before receiving several more calls for help.
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