Word: rescuees
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But it was in New Orleans where the cameras converged, a city that had braced for the worst, then briefly exhaled when it looked as if the threat had passed. Several hours after the storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section...
The last time I was in an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter, it was screaming over the Iraqi desert, doors open, hot air blowing in like a blast furnace. That was in 2003, when I was an embedded reporter with an Air Force combat rescue unit. Today, as we tear...
The scene on the ground is worse. We land on a patch of dry ground at New Orleans Lakefront Airport. For days, rescue teams like this one have been doggedly shuttling survivors from the putrid streets of the city to this desolate airstrip. Hundreds and hundreds of refugees plucked from...
"It's absolute chaos," Col. Timothy Tarchick screams into his satellite phone, straining his voice to be heard over the thump-thump of Coast Guard and military helicopters bringing more and more desperate souls. "It?s not safe here. I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here...
The pilot circled the house and got into position. Two para-rescue jumpers (PJs), the Air Force?s elite operators trained to go behind enemy lines and extract downed pilots, strapped into a hoist and descended to the slippery tile roof, aiming for the chimney which crumbled under their weight...