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Tampa General Hospital protected by ‘AquaFence’ during Hurricane Helene: ‘We can’t evacuate’

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**TAMPA, Fla. ** - As Hurricane Helene approaches, crews work fast to build a wall against the storm at Tampa General Hospital, which is right on the Hillsborough Bay. Dustin Pasteur, the vice president of facilities at TGH, said it takes 60 people and three full days to set up the wall called "AquaFence. " It's nine feet high and 1,000 feet long, stretching around the entire TGH facility on Davis Islands.


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