Fort Myers boat worker tells how he survived Hurricane Ian

A staircase, likely dislodged from a hurricane-wrecked boat saved the lives of two men who managed to use it to float away as their flood-stricken home vanished beneath Ian's rising waters.

Now Shawn Hunte has told DailyMail.com how he and his uncle Leonard Hunte escaped as Florida residents pick up the pieces from the apocalyptic scenes in and around Fort Myers.

'We fought for our lives,' Hunte, 55, told DailyMail.com as he stood outside his wrecked San Carlos Island mobile home.

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