Task Force 8 emergency responders return to Marion County from Surfside condo collapse
By FOX 35 News Staff
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. - The 29 men that make up Task Force 8 made their way back to Marion County Sunday night.
Before their departure, they all signed a TF8 T-shirt and placed it at the Surfside memorial.
The men were welcomed home at the Marion County Fire Rescue Operations and Training complex by friends and family.
Courtesy: Marion County Fire Rescue
Courtesy: Ocala Fire Rescue
Photo from the CDC
Six additional deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Marion County Sunday to the State of Iowa Database. There are now 40 fatalities locally since the beginning of the outbreak, 35 of which were a direct cause of the virus. Twenty of those individuals died in the month of December.
Over the past week, 196 new positive cases of COVID-19 have been reported. In the most recent update, Marion County Public Health considered 2224 individuals to have recovered.
There are seven residents currently hospitalized with the virus.