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Helene updates: Over 120 dead across Southeast; North Carolina ravaged by storm [1]
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Date: 2024-10
Donna Fagersten, 66, had gone to a friend’s two-story condo to be safe from Hurricane Helene. But she went to retrieve her cat and didn’t make it back to her friend’s home, her son told NBC News on Sunday.
Fagersten is one of nine people identified by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office who were killed by Hurricane Helene in the county. She lived on one of Florida’s barrier islands, Indian Rocks Beach, where most of the deaths have occurred and many who were killed were older adults. The sheriff’s office said all the victims were in areas of a mandatory evacuation zone.
“I don’t even know if this is correct because I haven’t been down there to verify anything, but it seems like she decided to go check on her cat,” John Runner, Fagersten’s son, said. “Didn’t make it back.”
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said water entered her home and it appeared she had drowned. But Runner said his mother was found outside her condo in the parking lot and “she didn’t make it to the house.”
Donna Fagersten and her granddaughter Seneca. Courtesy John Runner
He said his mother’s friend survived the hurricane as did Dylan, her cat.
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