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NEW ORLEANS - (KRT) - Ghastly new evidence of Hurricane Katrina's horror emerged Monday night when a sheriff reported the recovery of 22 bodies lashed together around a pole - a desperate, futile attempt to survive the storm. Sheriff Jack Stephens of St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans, said rescuers found the bodies tied with rope and wrapped around a pole in the tiny village of Violet along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. The bodies were found soon after the storm in a flooded area of the village but still haven't been identified, he said. He...

City of Vancouver Search Help        CITY OF VANCOUVER     About Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue USAR contact info Vancouver Fire & Rescue Services How you can help Public Comments     Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue Vancouver's Urban Search and Rescue Team is currently in Louisiana to assist in the search and rescue efforts in the areas of the state ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. The team was deployed on August 31 and is working with the Louisiana State Troopers and the U.S. National Guard. Senior team members will be calling in with reports on the situation and...

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 - The boat pulled up to the living room window on Read Boulevard early Sunday afternoon, and a volunteer rescuer, Stanley Patrick, began yelling: "Mr. Robert! Mr. Robert! Can you hear me?" There was no sound in response, only the lapping of water in this reeking New Orleans East neighborhood, where the rooftops of cars were still covered nearly a week after a levee broke and the city was inundated. [...] He found what he expected to find, an 83-year-old man, floating face down in stagnant water that had risen 3½ feet into the home. A...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. ``It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,'' the nation's homeland security chief warned. Air and boat crews also searched flooded neighborhoods for survivors, and federal officials urged those still left in New Orleans to leave for their own safety. To expedite the rescues, the Coast Guard requested through the media that anyone stranded hang out brightly colored or white linens or...

TWRA Personnel Deployed Following Hurricane Katrina On Friday morning, September 2, 2005, The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency sent forth a contingent of field personnel from Nashville and Jackson to assist in the search and rescue operations in New Orleans, LA, following Hurricane Katrina. Thirty-three commissioned officers and two radio technicians were deployed at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. “Our personnel are uniquely equipped to handle the type of recovery work that is desperately needed at this time,” stated Sonny Richardson, Chief of Law Enforcement for TWRA. “ We are...

The French Quarter was damaged by Katrina, but it was not destroyed, and tourists and residents let the good times roll and wondered why they were so lucky. By ERIKA BOLSTAD ebolstad@herald.com NEW ORLEANS - At the start of hurricane season, the historic St. Louis Cathedral in the heart of the French Quarter offers a short prayer in the Sunday church bulletin to Our Lady of Prompt Succor. Each year, the city's Catholics clip out the prayer, place it on their refrigerators and repeat the entreaty whenever a tropical depression appears in the Gulf of Mexico: Spare New Orleans from...

(CNN) -- One member of a U.S. special operations reconnaissance team missing in Afghanistan since Tuesday has been rescued, a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity told CNN. The team member "evaded the enemy and was successfully rescued by U.S. forces," the official said. No other details are being released because the search for other missing members of the team continues, the official said. A military helicopter crashed Tuesday while bringing reinforcements to the team, killing all 16 service members aboard. The U.S. military believes the chopper was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade. It is the worst single-day death...

New York, NY – The AKC Companion Animal Recovery and AKC Canine Health Foundation have approved funding that will allow Cynthia Otto, DVM, PhD, at the University of Pennsylvania to continue to study the health of the dogs deployed to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon following the terrorist attacks in September 2001. The new two-year grant, effective January 1, 2005, from the AKC Companion Animal Recovery Search and Rescue Fund as well as a matching donation from the AKC Canine Health Foundation (totaling $76,245), will allow for continued observation of the dogs in an effort to evaluate the...

Just a note to let you know that my new EWTN television series, SEARCH AND RESCUE, is now airing. Based on my book by the same title, S&R airs on EWTN Wednesdays @ 10:30 a.m. ET, Thursdays @ 10:30 p.m. ET, and on Saturdays @ 5:30 p.m. ET. I hope you find it helpful in your efforts to explain and share the Faith. And for those interested, some recent comments from cardinals and bishops about Search and Rescue (the book) are available at http://www.surprisedbytruth.com/comments.htm. Thanks.

Rangers return to Savannah 1st Battalion helped rescue Jessica Lynch and captured terrorists. By Noelle Phillips phillips@savannahnow.com 912-652-0366 It's never too late or too early to welcome soldiers home from a war. So, hundreds of people, mostly women and children, screamed, whistled and waved flags at Hunter Army Airfield's air terminal Monday morning. It was 1 a.m., and it sounded like a high school pep rally. A commercial airplane carrying nearly 250 troops from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment landed at 12:55 a.m. First, though, the Rangers had to turn in forms to U.S. Customs agents. Then, they lined up...

(CBS) A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in southern Iraq Wednesday, killing seven of the 11 soldiers aboard, Pentagon officials said. The helicopter was downed by small-arms fire near Karbala, the site of fierce fighting between the Army's 3rd Infantry Division and Iraqi troops, including Republican Guard forces. Four other soldiers on board the Black Hawk were wounded, but rescued by American troops, the officials said. The Black Hawk was the second U.S. helicopter to go down in combat. An Army Apache assault helicopter went down March 24 during an assault on Republican Guard forces; its two pilots...

<p>A U.S. military search team in Iraq has checked three sites in the country for signs of a Navy pilot missing from the 1991 Persian Gulf war but has found nothing, defense officials said yesterday.</p> <p>A team of Army specialists given the job of looking for Capt. Michael Scott Speicher conducted the searches in the past several days acting on intelligence information obtained before Operation Iraqi Freedom.</p>

Apr. 17, 2003. 10:39 PM Turtle leads U.S. coast guard on wild goose chaseAfter hours of searching, creature found pulling a stray rescue beacon HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) - The U.S. coast guard spent hours searching for a boat in distress off Bermuda's coast - even scrambling a rescue plane from the U.S. mainland - only to find a turtle behind it all. The incident began when coast guard monitors picked up an emergency beacon this week, signalling a boat was in trouble about 755 kilometres northwest of Bermuda, petty officer Tim Pike of the U.S. coast guard in Miami said...

Helicopters Brave Gunfire to Aid Wounded By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS .c The Associated Press OVER TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - In the back of a clattering helicopter, a Navy medic pumps the chest of a bleeding Marine and administers artificial ventilation, pleading with him to breathe. In the cockpit, the pilot shouts over the radio for the coordinates of the nearest field surgical facility. Swooping into the fight, Marine helicopters brave sand storms and gunfire to lift the injured - American and Iraqi alike - to safety. On board for the first time are trauma specialists, capable of administering lifesaving procedures on...

By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, April 15, 2003; 8:44 PM MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Central Iraq, April 15 -- The Marines were told to look for House 13. Inside they hoped would be U.S. soldiers captured by the Iraqis. As they made their way through a dusty warren of two-story mud-colored hutches in the Iraqi town of Samarra, they found House 11. They found House 12. But no House 13. What they did see were more and more Iraqis swarming around. First a child who popped around a corner, then two or three men. Soon there were dozens...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A trusted Iraqi on the CIA payroll gathered key information that led to the raid in Nasiriya, Iraq, that freed Pfc. Jessica Lynch from captivity, CNN has learned.</p> <p>Sources tell CNN the operative was trained and equipped with a hidden video camera to tape images of the hospital, including the location of her room and the route the special forces team would take.</p>

Iraqi On CIA Payroll Aided In US POW Lynch Rescue - CNN NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The rescue of former U.S. prisoner of war Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi hospital was aided by information provided by an Iraqi paid by the Central Intelligence Agency, CNN reported Tuesday. The Iraqi, who's identity was not provided, carried a concealed video camera and taped entry and exit points as well as the room in which Lynch was held before U.S. soldiers carried out their rescue, CNN reported. Intelligence already had been received pointing to the existence of a U.S. POW at the hospital. The...

Submitted by: I Marine Expeditionary Force Story Identification Number: 200341565546 Story by Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Central Iraq (April 15, 2003) -- On a tip from an Iraqi official, Marine with D Company, 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, dashed through sniper fire on the streets of Samarra, Iraq. The pushed on in the early morning of April 12 even as they felt the situation was eerily resembling the beginning of an infamous battle in Somalia which they had studied during training. The streets and rooftops in the town square quickly began to fill as the Marines searched...

American POWs recall harrowing ambush Monday, April 14, 2003BY JUAN O. TAMAYO KRT NEWS SERVICE ABOARD A C-130 OVER IRAQ -- Yesterday, on her 21st day as an Iraqi prisoner of war, Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson thought that she and six other American prisoners of war would be killed because their guards were afraid of the ever-approaching American attacks."We were a hot potato," said Johnson, 30, an Army cook with six-inch braids. The POWs were moved through six holding places in the last six days alone, she said. "It was getting to the point where I believed they were going...

ABOARD THE USS KITTY HAWK — The Navy has identified the remains of an F/A-18 Hornet pilot assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk and missing since his plane was shot down April 2, according to the aircraft carrier’s commanding officer. Capt. Thomas Parker said the body of Lt. Nathan D. White, 30, of Abilene, Texas, was found Saturday. He was a pilot with Strike Fighter Squadron 195, the Dambusters. He is survived by his wife and three children. “Nathan White was a fine officer and a great pilot,” Parker said. “We send our best to his family and his shipmates.”...