Polk deputies take mother in labor during worst of Hurricane Milton. The 911 call came at 3:07 a.m. Thursday while ambulances could not respond.

Polk County deputies drove a woman in labor to the hospital during Hurricane Milton due to inaccessible ambulances.

Deputy Calderin assisted Zenia and Javier into a patrol car while a relative joined deputies Jones and Goolsby in another car, the sheriff’s office said on social media. After the storm passed, the deputies went back to the hospital later in the day and learned that Zenia had given birth to a baby girl named Jade at about 1:30 p.m.

At the peak of Milton-related electric power outages in Polk County, more than six in 10 residents were in the dark. On Monday in an initial assessment of Hurricane Milton’s impact, Paul Womble, director of Polk County’s Emergency Management,

Two people were arrested after deputies said they broke into a Polk County home to "escape Hurricane Milton," but instead damaged the property.