Florida sheriff defends Lee County's evacuation plan, prep for Hurricane Ian: 'We wouldn't change anything'

Florida Sheriff Carmine Marceno defended Lee County's evacuation order on Monday, firing back against critics questioning the decision not to impose a mandatory evacuation order for Hurricane Ian until the day before the storm ravaged the area.

In an interview on "The Story," Marceno praised the hard-hit county's preparations leading up Ian’s landfall, telling Fox News host Martha MacCallum that Ian's "unpredictable" trajectory made it difficult to guess exactly where it was going to strike.

"A lot of people want to sit here and say ‘oh, could you have done it quicker, could you have done it differently.’ I’m here to tell you that this storm was so unpredictable," Marceno said.

"But," he added. "I can tell you this with certainty. At the emergency operations center, we made that call the second we thought and we were able and we wouldn’t change anything. We want everyone to listen, we can't force them out of their homes. But we did everything we could the proper way."