Animals released back into the wild after Helene and Milton

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Thousands of animals that were displaced or injured by hurricanes Helene and Milton have been released into the wild in Florida. AccuWeather's Leslie Hudson reports from Palm Shores on Oct. 31.

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00:00thousands of animals were either displaced or injured after Hurricane Celine and Milton hit

00:05Florida. Now, three weeks after Milton's landfall, dozens of them are getting released into the wild.

00:11AccuWeather correspondent Leslie Hudson is live in Palm Shores, Florida

00:16from a wildlife hospital that is spearheading the effort. Morning, Leslie.

00:21Hey, good morning to you, Bernie. Yeah, you know, in a typical year,

00:30this place takes in about 5,000 animals. During a hurricane, they can get hundreds of animals.

00:35We have some video from earlier in the month where they released about 60 animals that were

00:42directly impacted from Milton. That include owls and squirrels and turtles, all kinds of wildlife

00:49that were victims of Milton, got displaced from their homes, their own habitats were flooded out,

00:56and they recover here at this facility. So it's a great place to kind of get these animals back

01:02on their feet, so to speak. We're going to take a look at some of those animals coming up this

01:05morning, a really great cause that they do here, and we will have much more coming up. For now,

01:10we are reporting live in Palm Shores, Florida.

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