Officers sent to help after hurricane
Miami Beach police have deployed 41 officers to the Florida Panhandle to help with Hurricane Michael relief efforts.
The officers left in a caravan of 25 vehicles Sunday morning and shared tweets of their stops along the way. The vehicles were a mix of patrol cars, trucks and SUVS. The caravan arrived in north Florida late Sunday afternoon.
“Following the devastation of Hurricane Michael, our officers will be providing assistance to area law enforcement and the communities they serve,’’ said Ernesto Rodriguez, Miami Beach police spokesman.
Members of the Miami Fire Department are also in Mexico Beach to help with relief efforts.
They are among emergency crews from several South Florida agencies who have headed north to lend a helping hand in the wake of the devastation left by the Category 4 hurricane.
Florida Power & Light crews from Broward and Miami-Dade traveled to the Panhandle Thursday to help restore power to the hundreds of thousands of people who remain without electricity.
And troopers with the Florida Highway Patrol’s Quick Reaction Force also traveled north to assist with rescues and road patrols.
The town of Davie also dispatched seven police officers to the Panhandle to join their counterparts from law enforcement agencies across the state who are assisting the hard-hit departments there. Gov. Rick Scott announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate April 9 in Orlando. Andrew Pollack, father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre victim Heather Pollack, is behind Scott’s left shoulder. Also shown are Ann Scott and construction executive Issac Lidsky.