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Hurricane Helene’s ‘historic flooding’ made worse by global heating, Fema says
It will be ‘complicated recovery’ in five states, says disaster relief agency, with hurricane killing nearly 70 people so far
The head of the US disaster relief agency has called Hurricane Helene, which has killed nearly 70 people so far, a “true multi-state event” that caused “significant infrastructure damage” and had been made worse because of global heating.
The storm killed at least 69 people, according to state and local officials in South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Officials feared still more bodies would be discovered.
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