First Deaths Reported from Hurricane Florence after Wilmington Home Collapses
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Posted by: Matt Boster
Date: Sep 14 2018 2:06 PM
Hurricane Florence claimed its first victims Friday afternoon, when two people died after a tree fell on their home in Wilmington, North Carolina, police said.
The victims were a mother and infant, police said on Twitter. The father sustained injuries and was transported to New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington for medical care.
The powerful Category 1 storm is making its way south along the Carolina coast hours after making technical landfall early Friday morning. As of 2 p.m., the storm was about 35 miles west-southwest of Wilmington, N.C., and about 35 miles east-northeast of Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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