FROM WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
12:45 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Tom Planchet
12:43 P.M. - Kim Nunemaker, St. Bernard Ave. Specialty Hospital: 26 bed-ridden patients and 40 staff members have to evacuate from the building. They need assistance moving these patients down several flights of stairs because the elevator is broken. Anyone who can help is asked to come to 3700 St. Charles Avenue immediately.
Good order MAINTAINED? It has to be established.
2800 Nat'l Guard already in NOLA, just 1400 more arriving today, 1400 tomorrow.
She also said once the medical patients are evacuated from the helipad 2 blocks away, the staff has been told they and their families are "on their own," meaning these first-responders will have left the hospital to help save the patients, then told they have to find their own way to safety. Unbelievable. I'm waiting for the NG or ANYONE!!!!! to go in there and help protect the first-responders.