A Florida amputee known as "Lieutenant Dan" who was riding high for virally claiming he was refusing to leave his small home boat ahead of Hurricane Milton has now been arrested for failing to ...

“Right now, I’m waiting for the storm surge to come in to raise the boat up,” Lieutenant Dan calmly explained in a Wednesday, October 9, TikTok posted the same day that Milton made landfall ...

"You keep the water out of the boat, you’ll be fine." Castor spoke during a press conference Wednesday night and said the man the Tampa community refers to as "Lieutenant Dan" had been taken to ...

After their encounter, Concannon compared Malinowski with Forrest Gump’s Lieutenant Dan, a veteran amputee whose shrimp boat was the only vessel to miraculously make it out of “Hurricane ...

A Go-Fund-Me page originally created to get “Lieutenant Dan” a new boat has reached over $39,000 — with around $17,000 of that coming in since Wednesday afternoon. Concannon, the ...

The one-legged, sailboat-dwelling Florida man known as “Lieutenant Dan” — who went viral for ... who survived a hurricane on a boat. During the storm, he was “rescued” and later taken ...

His exploits earned him the name ‘Lieutenant Dan’ named after Gary Sinise’s paraplegic character from the film Forrest Gump who also refused to leave his boat during a massive storm.

If we can get Lieutenant Dan to go to a shelter ... He’s still on the boat.” Earlier in the day, Malinowski shrugged off those pleading with him to evacuate. Malinowski said the wind was ...

Many people turned to the comments section to express how excited they were that “Lieutenant Dan” had survived the storm. “He survived Milton on a boat he earned a promotion to Captain Dan ...

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