Trapped in New Orleans: Emergency Medical Worker Describes How Police Prevented Evacuation

by Democracy Now (reposted)

Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:31AM

We speak with emergency medical worker Lorrie Beth Slonsky who was in New Orleans attending a conference when hurricane Katrina hit. She describes how she spent most of the next week in New Orleans trapped by the flooding - and the police.

We speak with Lorrie Beth Slonsky of San Francisco, a retired paramedic from the San Francisco Fire Department and was in New Orleans attending a conference when Hurricane Katrina hit. She was fortunate enough to be staying in hotel in the French Quarter for the first few days but she and her partner Larry Bradshaw were forced to leave when conditions worsened.

* Lorrie Beth Slonsky, a retired paramedic from the San Francisco Fire Department.

LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/16/1223207

Read Lorrie Slonsky's Story:

Trapped in New Orleans by the flood--and martial law
The real heroes and sheroes of New Orleans
http://socialistworker.org/2005-2/556/556_04_RealHeroes.shtml

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