At least 46 missing in the city of Florida hit by Hurricane Michael: officer

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At least 46 missing in the city of Florida hit by Hurricane Michael: officer







At least 46 people remained missing Sunday in Mexico Beach, Florida, an area sprayed by Hurricane Michaelthe mayor of the city told ABC News.





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Mayor Al Cathey said 289 people, including 10 children, decided to stay, despite evacuation orders, and overcome the Category 4 storm that made landfall on Wednesday and destroyed numerous homes and businesses on the beach in Mexico, which with a population of almost 1,200 inhabitants. .



Cathy and Mexico City Beach employee Adrian Welle told ABC News that 46 of those who remained were lost on Sunday.



Of the 18 people who died when the hurricane swept Florida Panhandle, Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina, only one confirmed death has been reported on the beach in Mexico.



Hurricane Michael made landfall on the beach in Mexico with 155 mph winds.





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A banner hangs from a damaged house while a South Florida urban search and rescue team searches for survivors of Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, on Friday, October 12, 2018.

Florida Governor Rick Scott and Brock Long, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, toured the most affected areas of Mexico Beach, Panama City, Blountstown and Bristol on Sunday.



The police made two sweeps on the beach in Mexico on Wednesday morning and registered the names of all those who planned to stay, although authorities said it is impossible to know who may have left during or immediately after the storm.





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This satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows part of Mexico Beach, Florida, October 12, 2018.

The storm not only destroyed homes and businesses in the city, it destroyed the Mexico Beach Police Department.



"We do not have a building, as I understand it, the water surge took it out of its base," Mexico's beach police chief Anthony Kelly told ABC News on Friday. "The officers, I finally took responsibility for all of them today, two days after the fact ... Not only are my officers, the people I work with, they are my family."





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Members of a South Florida urban search and rescue team filter a pile of debris for survivors of Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, October 14, 2018.

Emily Mitchell returned on Saturday afternoon to what was left of the house her family owned on the beach in Mexico. The roof was ripped off, the walls flew and she called it a "total loss". They hope to simply bulldoze the lot. They are not sure what their next step will be because their parents decided they could not afford the hurricane insurance.





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View of the damage caused by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, October 13, 2018.

"We did not want to tell anyone about Mexico Beach because it was such a sweet city, we were afraid that people would know about it and keep coming," he said.





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View of the damage caused by Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, October 13, 2018.

The death toll from Hurricane Michael rose to 17 on Saturday. Authorities expected that the number of people killed by the storm would increase as crews toured the remains of once boisterous cities in the ocean, such as Mexico Beach and Panama City Beach.





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Lavonia Fortner helps her father-in-law, John E. Fortner, look for memories of his wife after Hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Florida, on Saturday, October 13, 2018. 

"There are people who have died, we do not have a count, but we are working to identify them," Miami Fire Chief Joseph Zahralban, leader of a search and rescue team in Mexico Beach, told The Associated Press.

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