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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Scanner: Memorial evac completed, then I lost more detail.
Also, another unit reporting that they were ready to pick up people, including woman with bad back, but then said they [people] instead first wanted food and water.
This whole terrible event is absolutely awful enough without these insane finger-pointing liberals out to bury G.W. at this time. No wonder the good man seems weary!
And I will repeat it again.
And now Lisa will be demoted to the mail room. How dare she put facts out there!!!
Thanks for the catch and your courage in listening to abc
That is gonna cause some real screaming in the CBC..but on;y the state van redraw a line..
And no "Little Dutch Boy" jokes, please.... ;-)
Yes, warehouse district....close to convention center and W Hotel
Bush showing courage and being positive as well as sensitive. What a man!
Pres: Spirit in Miss. is uplifting..
"what kind of fallout will come from pictures "
like an atom bomb - fall out willl be hot and long lasting.
Whoa! Bush says "we're taking it (chopper) to New orleans."
Shoot...There's going to be a thousand of'em in Utah at an old miltary base. And I suspect room might be found for more. I thought Detroit had all those empty spaces any more where people had moved out.
THat has been part of the plan all along. The question is whether he will actually land and visit with people.
I thought that came through loud and clear.
Healthy evacuated before the sick, says Cerise who described the scene as heartbreaking
By the Capitol news bureau
The state’s top health officer said Friday he witnessed healthy people being evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, while patients using ventilators to breathe were left on the roof.
A teary-eyed Fred Cerise, a physician and the secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, shook his head as told the story during an interview Friday.
Cerise had worked three days tending patients in New Orleans and said the scene is heart-breaking.
Cerise said he returned to Baton Rouge to try and better coordinate the evacuation effort of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, consisting of Charity Hospital and University Hospital.
The medical facility is surrounded by deep water. It is without electricity and water. The toilets don’t work and the remaining generators are failing. Meanwhile, snipers have been shooting at departing helicopters and evacuees.
“The need is just overwhelming," Cerise said, and even with medical staff working around the clock, the demand far outweighs the people and supplies available.
Hospital staffers found a previously unused passageway between University Hospital and Big Charity. They ferry patients to a staging area in Big Charity, where the sick and injured are loaded onto trucks to cross the street. Patients then are wheeled through a Tulane University Hospital unit to a helicopter landing pad on the roof.
The evacuees then are moved to the nearby New Orleans arena, then to a helicopter pad for an arduous journey to other medical facilities, Cerise said.
Charity Hospital had about 230 patients and nearby University Hospital had about 120 patients at the time of the storm. In addition, to the sick and injured, several thousand others sought refuge in the hospitals during the storm.
Don Smithburg, who is charge of LSU’s public hospitals, said Friday the he has been unable to get accurate, up-to-date numbers of evacuees. But he said, the state was able to move 18 newborns from the neonatal intensive care unit and 10 well babies.
The evacuation is still under way, he said.
Smithburg said the evacuation effort is facing logistic and security concerns because the helicopters and hospital personnel were subjected to sniper fire Thursday. The situation stabilized when police units and armed soldiers were able to provide cover for the evacuation process.
Smithburg complained that efforts to deliver medical supplies, basic food and water to hospital staffers and patients have been turned back by armed personnel at the New Orleans city limits.
“There seems to be a lack of centralized command,” Smithburg said.
Once the evacuation is complete, Smithburg said the state might never use the huge, aging hospital again.
http://www.2theadvocate.com
How sad. Hope the Fireman on the scene will be safe and understand how hot that fire is gonna get.
Some jerk reporter just asked Bush if we have enough security down there, making references to Iraq..
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