Here's a FR thread discussing this nw:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1475122/posts
Dropping this here for archival purposes only.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475124/posts
New Orleans Doctors Plead for Help
AP via Breitbart.com ^ | 9/1/05 | MARILYNN MARCHIONE
Posted on 09/01/2005 3:14:53 PM PDT by LarryDeRobio
"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."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Seems like any thread I click on, with the exception of TM, people are biting each others head's off.