Some Treasure Coast first responders were deployed Friday morning to Florida’s west coast to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Helene made landfall at Perry as a Category 4 storm about 11:30 p.m. Thursday. It is the strongest hurricane on record to slam into Florida’s Big Bend area.
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office Rapid Response Team was on their way to Citrus County around 7:30 a.m., when they were rerouted around 8:40 a.m. to Lafayette County in the Big Bend area to assist local law enforcement. They were sent by the Emergency Operations Center because Lafayette County was more impacted, according to Sheriff William Snyder…