Hurricane Ian Volunteer Jim Hewitt Dies From Bacterial Infection Contracted While Helping

A Michigan man died while trying to help others after Hurricane Ian. Jim Hewitt felt the need to help, his daughter Kendall Smoes told WINK. Hewitt drove to Naples, Florida, to help a friend. While salvaging a boat, he told his family that he fell in the water and cut his leg. Thinking nothing of it, he put an antibiotic ointment on it and kept going. But the next morning, Hewitt awoke with a painful, swollen leg, and was rushed to the hospital. Hewitt died three days later.