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...first of the dead--26 bodies--arrived six days after Hurricane Katrina, in refrigerated trucks at a temporary mortuary set up in the tiny town of St. Gabriel, to the northwest of New Orleans. Fearing the worst, Nagin ordered 25,000 body bags. By then, most of the 1.3 million who lived in New Orleans and its suburbs had been bused or airlifted out. But a week after the levees broke, at least 10,000 were believed to be still in the city--some determined to stick it out, others inaccessible to rescuers. Health officials tested and found E. coli...
...heavily guarded, nondescript warehouse in St. Gabriel, a team of 150 medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists, dentists, radiologists and funeral directors is running an around-the-clock operation to prepare bodies for identification. They are men of few words, like Terry Edwards, 47, a veteran funeral director from Eastland, Texas. Although he has volunteered for 11 disasters' aftermaths, including cleaning up the Columbia shuttle crash, he says New Orleans is the worst. In teams of two, Edwards and his comrades open each body bag, inventory the contents, decontaminate for chemical waste, then assess the victim for gunshot wounds...
...smiles and says, "I've needed a new office for a long time. I'm going to con somebody into giving me one." New Orleans will need plenty more of that old, enterprising spirit if it is to recover all it has lost. --With reporting by Steve Barnes/St. Gabriel and Kim Humphreys/St. Bernard Parish
...Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...evacuation took place on Friday. Lynn and Gabriel left the house at the request of the soldiers. The kids practiced a "passive resistance" and were carried out by four soldiers each. As the families were leaving Gadid peacefully, dozens of protesters, non-residents drawn to demonstrate against the evacuation, threw stones at the evacuating forces. "They came in to help us in our efforts," says Lynn, "but this contributed nothing to our struggle...