Fri, Sep 02, 2005
Sends Technicians, Equipment To NOL
Officials at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, working
with the Red Cross, said Friday they were sending an emergency
assistance team to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International
Airport to help rebuild after the Crescent City was pounded by
Hurricane Katrina earlier this week.
"Our plan is to send the first team out immediately," Sky Harbor
Assistant Aviation Director told the Phoenix Business Journal.
Eight Sky Harbor technicians with airport repair equipment were
dispatched Friday in teams of two. Final details hadn't yet been
worked out, but the teams were to begin leaving immediately.
Meanwhile, At NOL...
NOL, meantime, remained closed to commercial traffic. Instead,
the airport has become a center for relief activity. Some 800
people were being treated at a field hospital set up to triage and
treat the ill and injured. CNN's Ed Lavandera reported seeing
several body bags at the airport and reported some patients were
being "black-tagged" -- deemed too badly injured or too ill to
treat.
Helicopters are flying in and out of the airport, ferrying
evacuees from all over the stricken city. So far, Lavandera
reported, the airport had processed more than 40,000 people ravaged
by Hurricane Katrina. At one point, Lavandera said, he counted 75
helicopters flying over New Orleans, as rescue efforts became more
desperate four days after Katrina plowed through. Much of the city
remained flooded on Friday, as violence and looting continued.
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