Man survived Hurricane Milton by clinging onto a cooler 30 miles out to sea
Rescues are still underway in Florida as the sunshine state is reeling from Hurricane Milton, including one of a man clinging onto a cooler.
Eight people are dead after the storm, which arrived just two weeks after Hurricane Helene, knocked out power to more than 3 million customers, flooded barrier islands, tore the roof off a baseball stadium and toppled a construction crane.
A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who was left clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico after his fishing boat was stranded in waters roiled by Hurricane Milton.
Among the most dramatic rescues, Hillsborough County officers found a 14-year-old boy floating on a piece of fence and pulled him onto a boat.