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Thursday, September 01, 2005"Hospitals are trying to evacuate," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan, spokesman at the city emergency operations center. "At every one of them, there are reports that as the helicopters come in people are shooting at them. There are people just taking pot shots at police and at helicopters, telling them, 'You better come get my family.'" Richard Zuschlag, president of Acadian Ambulance Service Inc., described the chaos at a suburban hospital. "We tried to airlift supplies into Kenner Memorial Hospital late last evening and were confronted by an unruly crowd with guns, and the pilots refused to land," he said. "My medics were crying, screaming for help. When we tried to land at Kenner, my pilots got scared because 100 people were on the helipad and some of them had guns. He was frightened and would not land." Words fail. posted by Sydney on 9/01/2005 06:55:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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