The Latest on Hurricane Ian (all times local):
8 a.m.
NAPLES, Fla. - Along Interstate 75, the main highway connecting the Miami and Naples areas, utility trucks from Texas - flanked by pickup trucks with flashing yellow beacons - made their way west early Thursday toward the area of southwest Florida ravaged by Hurricane Ian.
Also along that path were pickup trucks loaded with generators, gas cans and other storm recovery supplies.
Naples Fire Chief Pete DiMaria said that his firefighters had to wade through the water to make rescues on foot.
“We made a couple of rescues where we had to actually walk from the fire station about two blocks to rescue a couple that was stuck in their house that was flooding rapidly,” DiMaria said Thursday on NBC’s “Today.