Hurricane Milton tornado rips through Florida retirement community, with multiple deaths
A Hurricane Milton tornado tore through a Florida retirement community Wednesday, killing multiple residents and leaving a level of destruction not seen locally for decades, officials said.
A Hurricane Milton tornado tore through a Florida retirement community Wednesday, killing multiple residents and leaving a level of destruction not seen locally for decades, officials said.
Four people died in St. Lucie County, on Florida’s east coast, and more than one of those fatalities came at the Spanish Lakes Country Club Village, a neighborhood designed for residents 55 and older, county spokesman Erick Gill said.
“I can’t confirm that all of them [the four deaths] were from the Spanish Lakes neighborhood that was hardest hit,” Gill told NBC News. “I don’t know if it was all four [fatalities at Spanish Lakes], but I know there was more than one [there].”
Spanish Lakes Country Club in Fort Pierce, Fla.Google MapsThe tornadoes struck at about 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, ahead of Milton making landfall on Florida’s west coast.
There had been no orders to evacuate that area “because it was well ahead of the actual impact that we were expecting to receive from Hurricane Milton,” according to Gill.
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