Florida hurricane cleanup intensifies as 800K remain without power: DeSantis
Florida is shifting nearly 3,000 workers toward debris removal as the recovery from Hurricanes Helene and Milton picks up steam, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Sunday.
“We’ve got a lot of work left to do, but I think the debris mission is something that is important,” DeSantis said during a news conference in Treasure Island, a city on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico that has been battered by both recent hurricanes.
DeSantis cautioned that debris removal could take up to a year but said the state would try to make as much progress as possible because President Joe Biden has approved of 100% reimbursements for that effort during that time.
“The (removal of) debris has to be 24/7 over this 90-d...
