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Hurricane Helene made landfall on the west coast of the US state of Florida, the US National Hurricane Center said on Thursday evening, with officials talking of at least one fatality. Shortly before making landfall, the National Hurricane Center classified it as an “extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane” at 6:20 pm (2220 GMT). “Hurricane Helene is currently making landfall in Taylor county in the Big Bend section of Florida,” Governor Ron DeSantis said in a press briefing. “It is a category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour [225 kilometres per hour] and it’s moving…

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