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Florida man rescues neighbors on surfboard after Helene floods island city
Marty Thomas’s heroics on Indian Rocks Beach one of few uplifting stories after storm kills at least 200 people
A man living in a Florida island city that was inundated with Hurricane Helene’s deadly storm surge reportedly used his surfboard to rescue about a dozen of his neighbors – as well as pets – from flooded homes.
As told by WTVT, Marty Thomas’s heroics on Indian Rocks Beach provided one of a precious few uplifting stories to come in the wake of Helene, which has killed at least 200 people across six south-eastern US states Thursday as search crews continued combing through the storm’s wreckage.
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