Vancouver Rescue Team is in Louisiana

Oldfart

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To give you a real inside look at New Orleans and Louisiana, I'm forwarding
parts of a press release from the City of Vancouver today about the USAR;
The Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue Team. The team has arrived in Kenner, Louisiana to aid in the search and rescue efforts in the area following
Hurricane Katrina.

The USAR team is made up of 45 members from a cross-section of City departments such as Fire, Police and Engineering, and from the B.C. Ambulance Service. The team has its own base camp and water purification equipment. As well, the team is completely self sustainable, without re-supply, for 10 days.

The team manager, Brian Inglis, filed this report at 10AM Louisiana time today.

"There is virtually no communications here. We're using the MCI truck that's
been set up, and using their satellite communications network. Even our own
satellite phones aren't working here right now.

"We've been attached to the Louisiana State Troopers, and we also have the
National Guard assisting us. Unfortunately, from time we were given orders to
move from Lafayette at 4:30 a.m. this morning up here, the lid has blown off
this place. There's a lot of gun fire, a number of hostage situations right down
the street. So, all search and rescue has been halted in this area for now. We
will not be performing any search and rescue operations for at least the next
8-12 hours.

"It's far too dangerous for even the state troopers and police to wander out.
It's absolutely crazy, the devastation is unreal -- the gunfire, the shooting,
the looting is like something you see in a movie.

"We're sitting tight here. It's hotter than blazes. It was 96° F and 98 per cent
humidity, which brings the humidex up to around 109° F. We do have some water;
we have some food, good ol' Louisiana cooking the locals have cooked up for the police officers and ourselves.

"So we're going to hunker down here for a while."
- Brian Inglis
 
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