The first major hurricane of the season leaves three dead in the United States

The passage of hurricane 'Helene' left three fatalities on the southeastern coast of the United States this Friday. A man and a woman lost their lives in Georgia when their trailer was swept away by a tornado, according to Wheeler County emergency services, and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reported the death of a person driving in Tampa.

«We received a report of a fatality on the road. A car was struck when a sign fell onto the road,» DeSantis explained in a briefing on the damage caused by the first major hurricane of the season. «This shows that conditions are very dangerous. It is not the time to go out,» he added.

WTOC television channel reported that the trailer where the deceased were found was dragged along a road, hit two vehicles, and landed in a field in Wheeler County.

The cyclone made landfall at eleven o'clock on Thursday night (local time) with category four and winds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour upon reaching the Florida coast, although its advance towards Georgia has caused it to lose strength down to category one with gusts of 120 kilometers per hour.

The National Hurricane Center stated that 'Helene' «continues to move inland over central Georgia and is producing hurricane-force winds and heavy rains.»

The passage of the hurricane has left more than two million people without electricity in four southern states (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina), according to data from PowerOutage.us which tracks power outages in the United States.