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  • Official: Charley's Death Toll to Climb [Stacks Of Bodies at Mobile Home Park]

    08/14/2004 1:42:49 AM PDT · by kattracks · 533 replies · 22,668+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 8/14/04 | ALLEN G. BREED,
    PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - The death toll from Hurricane Charley rose early Saturday, when a county official said there had a been "a number of fatalities" at a mobile home park and deputies were standing guard over stacks of bodies because the area was inaccessible to ambulances. Wayne Sallade, Charlotte County's director of emergency management, said early Saturday that there were "a number of fatalities" at the mobile home park, and that there were confirmed deaths in at least three other areas in the county. The eye of the worst hurricane to hit Florida in a dozen years passed directly...