In the last few days, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered searchers NOT to break into homes. They are supposed to look in through a window and knock on the door. If no one cries out for help, they are supposed to move on. If they see a body, they are supposed to log the address and move on. The morticians will remove the deceased later. I'm sure THIS man is so very happy to see that they're concerned about budgeting time:
Dr. Peter Czuleger, a California physician, examines Edgar Hollingsworth,
who spent more than two weeks in his home after the hurricane. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3353135...Fell broke the rules and ordered his men to bash open the door, launching a series of events that would save a man's life and revitalize California Task Force 5 from Orange County, Calif. In the last two days, the 80-member task force had identified seven dead bodies in the same neighborhood, and they had rescued no one.
But Tuesday, 16 days after Hurricane Katrina smacked this aging community in the face, an unconscious and emaciated man identified as Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, was rescued. The man is expected to survive.
"I'm on cloud nine," said Task Force leader Marc Hawkins. "It was awesome to be a part of that."