Positivity: Other Katrina Heroism Stories
Still more Katrina heroics (last third of link):
Mark Perillat, 49, escorted his wife and children to nearby Lake Charles before returning to New Orleans to rescue the stranded by canoe. Among those he paddled to safety were a couple in their fifties who had stood in water for three days before he arrived.
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Louis Armstrong New Orleans international airport, 10 miles west of the flooded areas, was turned into a huge medical centre with doctors and nurses working 24-hour shifts to save those suffering from thirst and heat exhaustion.
Don Smithberg, chief executive of a local group of hospitals, said some of his staff had stayed awake throughout much of the crisis. “Some did not eat or sleep for days, they have been so busy,” he said. “This is one definition of heroism.”
