Florida Highway Patrol troopers rescued a dog tied to a pole in Tampa on Tuesday in the hours leading up to Hurricane Milton making landfall on the region as a "catastrophic" storm.

Police officers in Tampa, FL made a disturbing discovery on Wednesday morning just ahead of Hurricane Milton making landfall, when they came across a helpless dog that had been tied to a fence near a highway.

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Video shows the moment a Florida state trooper rescued a scared dog who was tied to a pole nearly submerged in water in an area that was in the path of Hurricane Milton.

Four people and a dog were saved by U.S. Coast Guard aircrew after their aircraft crashed into Florida waters amid their evacuation.

Video captured four people and a dog getting rescued after their plane crashed off the Florida coast shortly after take-off from Albert Whitted Airport near St. Petersburg. A Good Samaritan and authorities pulled the people from the water as they hung onto the plane’s tail wing.

Dramatic video released by the United States Coast Guard shows the dire rescue after a plane carrying four passengers and a dog evacuating from Hurricane Milton crashed near the St. Pete Pier Tuesday morning.

Four men between the ages of 25-40 crashed in a private plane trying to evacuate Florida's western coastline Goes-East/Noaa/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Hurricane Milton Satellite at 10:00 GMT,