by Hannah Critchfield and Emily Wunderlich at Tampa Bay Times
An older woman who was crushed by a tree crashing into her bedroom in Ormond Beach.
An 89-year-old in Volusia County who began experiencing a cardiac emergency after paramedics stopped responding to calls.
An Orange County man who was electrocuted while cleaning the detritus left in the storm’s wake.
These are just a few of the 18 people who died in Hurricane Milton’s rampage across the state. Four of those deaths were reported in Tampa Bay.
A Tampa woman in her early 70s was pinned under a large tree branch that fell in the Tampa Heights neighborhood Thursday morning, according to city police. Hurricane Milton restoration efforts were underway on the property when the limb fell, striking and killing her, officials said.
On Thursday evening, another 55-year-old woman was killed in a traffic crash at the intersection of Florida and Palm avenues, Tampa police said Friday morning. “Due to widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Milton, the area was dark, and the traffic signal was inoperative,” the agency said in a news release.
In St. Petersburg,..
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