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for the scanner listeners

CALLSIGN -- DESCRIPTION

Fuel Mobile 1 -- Fuel Truck
Fuel Mobile 2 -- Fuel Truck
Fuel Mobile 3 -- Fuel Truck seemed to be primarily for medical centers earlier
Pelican 6 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations.
Pelican 3 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations.
Bulldog JOC(?) -- Military Police Joint Ops. Center(?)
State EOC -- Louisiana State Emerg. Ops. Center
Pelican Base -- Aircraft Base.
Eagle Base -- Eagle Base is the Colonels operation location
New Orleans EOC -- New Orleans Emerg. Ops. Center
Defender 1 -- Military Aircraft providing coverage near troops operating in city area (SWAT)
Saint Charles EOC -- St. Charles Emerg. Ops. Center
Region 9 EOC -- Region 9 Emerg. Ops. Center
Bayou77 EOC -- Bayou77 Emerg. Ops. Center
Bulldog 6 -- Military Police Unit
Defender 5 -- Military Aircraft
Essler(?) Ops -- Essler(?) Operations Center
Dragon 15 -- Unk.
Pelican JOC(?) -- Aircraft Joint Ops. Center(?)
Eagle 5 -- Unk.
Defender 6 -- Military Aircraft
Pelican 3 Alpha -- Military Aircraft (Help with the Alpha)
Tiger 5 -- Unk.
Eagle 2 Alpha -- Unk.
Bulldog 3 -- Military Police Unit

WWL FEED UPDATE:

Updates as they come in on Katrina
11:49 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005

Tom Planchet

11:45 A.M. - U.S. Postal Service spokesman: 4,000 postal workers in the Greater New Orleans area can call 1-877-477-3273 to check in.

Anyone with friends or relatives who are currently stationed in the Houston Astrodome can get a letter out to them by writing the following on the front of their envelope:
(The name of the person you are trying to reach)
General Delivery
Houston Astrodome 77230

11:44 A.M. - (AP) Fire destroyed one in a row of old four-story brick buildings in the central business district Friday. The building was residential, but firefighters said there were no reports of injuries. The structure, not far from the casino and convention center, had minimal damage in the storm but burned to rubble.

Since there is no water in the city system, firefighters were unable to fight the blaze and stood by watching.

"There was nothing they could do," said Chief Norman Woodridge.

The blaze appeared to be contained within the firewalls. It was across the street from two high-rise hotels, where employees were dumping buckets of water on their wind-shredded awnings to prevent embers from lighting them. A half block from the fire, authorities with rifles stood guard.

The building was residential, and earlier in the week people, who apparently rode out the storm there, were sitting on a rooftop patio. Authorities said they were not aware of anyone in the building when the alarm was sounded. Virtually all the city is being evacuated because there is no water or electricity, let alone food and sanitation.

11:35 A.M. - BOISE, ID (AP): Another C-130 from the Idaho Air National Guard is leaving Gowen Field in Boise to support Gulf Coast hurricane relief efforts.

Before heading to New Orleans, the plane is stopping in Portland today to load supplies and equipment for Oregon National Guard security forces being deployed to the disaster area.

Yesterday, two C-130s from Idaho left for the Gulf Coast, one carrying Nevada National Guard security forces and the other loaded with 28-thousand bottles of water.

Pelican 6 is actually the unit commander for Pelican. Pelican Three Alpha is an indvidual callsign. Bulldog 6 is unit commander at the SuperDome. Not sure what unit Defender Six commands, but he's a unit commander, and it's not an air unit, I don't think. Last I heard, Defender and Bulldog are ground units, Pelican is helicopter ops, Dragon (last night, anyway) was a flight of fighter jets (!).

"Six" is the callsign for a unit's commander.