The state has been hit by back-to-back hurricanes – Helene and Milton.
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employee has been sacked after telling staff not to help hurricane survivors who displayed signs at their homes supporting Donald Trump.
Florida governor Ron DeSantis had said he directed the state’s Division of Emergency Management to launch an investigation into “the federal government’s targeted discrimination of Floridians who support” the president-elect.
FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell called the worker’s behaviour “reprehensible” in a statement, which confirmed the unnamed employee, who has not been identified, had been fired.
Florida was hit by back-to-back hurricanes, Helene and Milton.
