CRESCENT CITY, Fla. – A Putnam County woman was killed Friday afternoon when a tree fell on a camper trailer in Crescent City, and the Sheriff's Office is blaming her death on Hurricane Matthew. Hers is one of four deaths in Florida attributed to the storm.
Deputies and rescue personnel responding to U.S. 17 South about 3 p.m. learned that two adults who were attempting to ride out the storm in the trailer when the tree blew down. A man was able to escape with minor injuries, but a woman was dead.
Her name was not released Friday night.
A falling tree is also blamed for killing a Volusia County woman, who deputies say went outside about 12:30 p.m. during a lull in the storm to feed her animals. Family members tried to get the women in her 60s to a hospital after the tree toppled, but officials said it was too late.
St. Lucie County officials reported two hurricane-related deaths, when emergency crews were unable to reach a 58-year-old woman and a man in his 80s, both of whom died from medical complications.
Friday evening, Jacksonville Fire Rescue transported eight people, including some children, to hospitals for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning. JFRD spokesman Tom Francis said 16 people in two units of an apartment building on Powers Avenue were sharing a generator.
There was no word on the conditions of those hospitalized.