[MRMEAN]

Further along Highway 10, hundreds of volunteer firefighters, auxiliary coastguards and others with small boats were anxious to rescue people, but were being held back because one of their vessels had been shot at.

"We are trying to do our job here but we can't if they are shooting at us. We don't know who and we don't know why, but we don't want to get in a situation of having to return fire out there," Major Joey Broussard of the Louisiana State Fisheries and Wildlife Division said.

[OldFriend]

A helicopter attempting to get low enough to drop medical supplies to a hospital was shot at.

The real question is how is it that the Mayor forgot to evacuate the acute care hospitals and the nursing homes.

Perhaps he thought the tooth fairy would do his job.

[hershey]

They'd better start returning fire. They're ceding the city to thugs and killers. Dumb and dumber.