OMG 3 elderly evacuees die of dehydration (hot bus...long ride)

[blitzen]

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1125291845196510.xml&storylist=louisiana


BATON ROUGE, La. An official with the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office says three residents of a New Orleans nursing home fleeing Hurricane Katrina aboard a school bus died today (Sunday) during an evacuation to a Baton Rouge church.

The names, ages and sexes of the dead were not available.

Don Moreau, chief of operations, says the coroner's office responded to a call from emergency medical technicians to a Baptist church, which was the destination for the bus of nursing home patients. Once there, Moreau says one person was dead inside the church and another was found dead inside the bus.

He says the person in the bus appeared to have been dead for some time.

Moreau says the others on the bus, 21 people, were transported to Earl K- Long Hospital, where a third nursing home resident later died.

The coroner's office has not determined a cause of death for any of the three. However, Moreau says many people on the bus were suffering from dehydration.

It is not known how long the bus was on the road, but many other travelers reported drive times from the New Orleans area to Baton Rouge of several hours.

Moreau would not name the nursing home or the church in which it sought refuge from the oncoming storm.

The deaths come almost a year after two nursing home residents died during an evacuation of a nursing home for Hurricane Ivan.

[steve2470]

1. link ?

[blitzen]

2. link

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1125291845196510.xml&storylist=louisiana

[TaleWgnDg]

7. please add the link to your OP . . .

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1125291845196510.xml&storylist=louisiana

[TaleWgnDg]

6. tis a very easy news-google . . .

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1125291845196510.xml&storylist=louisiana

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. This is so sad.

What a sad way to go.

[Renew Deal]

4. They will be added to the Katrina body count.

I beleive that deaths even remotely related will be added.

[geomon666]

9. I guess that makes it 10 all together n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Oh gosh

:(

[Catherine Vincent]

8. Sad. Trying to get away and their fragile bodies couldn't take it.

:-(

[TaleWgnDg]

10. Their surviving kin should file a law suit . . . absolutely! n/t

[jmm]

11. CNN is talking about it now

They also mentioned that during Ivan 2 NO nursing home residents died of dehydration too while evacuating.

[NiteOwll]

12. This seems so outrageous to me

Obviously, you don't put elderly people on a school bus with no A/C for a long trip. Even worse, weren't there nurses or aides to check on the patients during the trip? The one person on the bus had been dead for some time -- that's just unacceptable!