Report from a local team of firefighters who went to New Orleans

[Roland99]

SRT Morning Update: 09-01-2005, 0830

Apparently things in New Orleans were even crazier yesterday!

Chris says that the group traveled to a hospital on an island to evacuate patients that hadn't had food or water for 3 days. Along the way, Mikes team came across people stranded on their roofs with dead bodies of family members lying beside them. Apparently there wasn't much they could do. Once they got to the hospital, Blackhawk helicopters assisted in evacuating the victim's. By 9:00 PM, the group was told to pack it in until tomorrow due to the sunset and the difficulty of landing the helicopters in the dark. This left over 100 patients still at the hospital, including many children who begged them not to leave. Chris said the remaining patients although upset, were understanding. One hugged Chris and thanked him for helping.

Everywhere the team goes, they are protected by armed police. At one point they broke into a Winn-Dixie Store to get food for the team. While they were inside, the police guarded them with guns drawn. When the police took a turn to go inside for food, they gave Dan a glock pistol and Sean a shotgun to stand guard.

Chris said the situation is getting desperate. No one has had food for several days and people are dying by the thousands. Many of the victim's ask the group for food or water as they go by, but Chris says they don't have enough to spare.

They have been eating military rations and working long hours in the hot sun. He also said that there aren't enough rescuers to get everyone saved, even though miles of rescue vehicles were lined up on a road leading into the command post.

Last night the group got 6-7 hours of sleep and will be back at it again today. He thinks they will be down there for several more days. I will get another update tomorrow.

[leftofthedial]

1. Looters!

I'm disgusted. They should be shot.

:sarcasm:

[LTR]

2. They'd better be careful

Bill O'Lielly will issue a fatwa for looting.

[ptolle]

19. blowhard's fatwa

In listening to blowhard billowlielly as much as my GI tract could take I believe I heard him already issue that fatwa- echoed, of course, by the rest of the frightwingshrieker flock.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. thanks for the info

keep the updates coming

[xultar]

4. Thanks for the news.

[Pallas180]

5. Thanks Roland. What state are the firefighters from? NY?

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[Pallas180]

6. "No one has had food for several days & people are dying by the thousands"

cheezus. that hits bad. if they had just gotten in there after two days, or even three days, there might not be so many many dying .

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. And the food they drop is getting destroyed.. they just pitch it

at folks, never mind if the water bottles bust open and are spilled averywhere but into the mouths of the people who need it most.

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[Roland99]

9. KY...from the Louisville area.

[Ripley]

7. My local news (AL) has reports from our firemen and NG who have been

to Mississippi coast. Violence is happening and not just desperate people fighting for food and water, but those with cars who lost homes are fighting for hotel rooms and gasoline.

But I guess those nice black firemen and NG are just furthering the genocide being cast upon the poor blacks in the region. Or so some DUers have told me. :eyes:

[Roland99]

13. Complete mayhem

:(

[Delphinus]

8. Did you send this update to any of the major MSM?

I'm thinking Keith Olberman or even Jack Cafferty, since he went off on the boy king's lack of action so well yesterday.

This is the kind of information that absolutely has to get out!

[Roland99]

10. Will do!

[Roland99]

11. Done...and feel free to media blast it, too!

[Rose Siding]

14. They can't land helicopters in the dark?

Doesn't night vision tech help with that?

[Roland99]

15. Probably more of a risk of being shot at at night.

[1932]

18. Nowhere in that story did that team mention getting shot at.

Which might disappoint people.

The story did suggest that if you're not poor and black, it's OK to loot a store at gun point (so there isn't exactly zero tollerance of that sort of thing).

[1932]

17. I guess the nightvision equipment is in Iraq.

It's ridiculous that we can't rescue people at night but we can destroy a city in a oil war at night.

[Tinoire]

16. :( Wow- Thank you for this sad update n/t