The US Coast Guard has rescued 295 people in the Bahamas since Hurricane Dorian started pounding the islands.

Seven Jayhawk helicopters and five MH-65 dolphin helicopters are on continued search and rescue missions on the devastated islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco, the US Embassy in Nassau tweeted.

The Coast Guard said eight cutters are also providing hurricane response support in the Bahamas.

“They will continue working around the clock to rescue as many people as they can,” the embassy said.

The death toll stood at 43 people early Saturday, but officials have warned that it is likely to rise sharply. Some areas are still out of reach, and at least 70,000 people are homeless.

“We acknowledge that there are many missing and that the number of deaths is expected to significantly increase,” Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said late Friday. “This is one of the stark realities we are facing in this hour of darkness.”

President Trump early Saturday praised the Coast Guard and other agencies responding to the widespread damage.

“I give all credit to FEMA, the US Coast Guard, & the brave people of the Bahamas,” he said in a tweet.

Other relief efforts are still streaming into the Bahamas, from sources as diverse as the British Royal Navy, American Airlines, Royal Caribbean cruises. Private donations from celebrities like Tyler Perry, who used his personal plane to deliver water and other emergency supplies to Abaco, according to CNN.

On Saturday morning, several hundred people, many of them Haitian immigrants, waited at Abaco’s Marsh Harbour in hopes of leaving the disaster zone on vessels arriving with aid.

Bahamian security forces were organizing evacuations on a landing craft. Other boats, including yachts and other private craft, were also helping to evacuate people.