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Fatalities in Florida
Fatalities in Florida
As Irma bore down on Florida this morning, at least three deaths were reported in the state.
A man in Monroe County, which encompasses Key West, was killed after he lost control of a truck that carried a generator as winds whipped at tropical-storm strength, officials said.
Two other people, including a sheriff's deputy, died in a car crash in the rain in Hardee County, which is about 60 miles inland from Sarasota, officials said. The sheriff's deputy, identified as Julie Bridges, was a 13-year veteran of the Hardee County force, said Hardee County Sheriff Arnold Lanier.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/hurricane-irma-close-landfall-florida-keys-dead-state/story?id=49738525
