Fire in New Orleans historic district

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Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:34PM

NEW ORLEANS A blaze today in a historic New Orleans district of mostly wooden homes has fired up some complaints about the response.
National Guardsmen cordoned off the area in the lower Garden District as New Orleans firefighters battled the blaze.

But Patrick McCarty, a longtime resident of the neighborhood, says they're "just watching it burn."

McCarty says the apartment house on fire was the home of people who couldn't afford much. McCarty, who owns some buildings in a row of funky shops a few blocks down, says he'd seen a helicopter with a water pouch a day or two earlier, heading for a nearby neighborhood.

He complained that the government can fight forest fires a hundred miles from water in six hours. In his words, "It's been six days here."

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Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:35PM

A fireman hoses an adjacent roof of an apartment fire in the lower Garden District of New Orleans September 6, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The fire, which destroyed three buildings, was reportedly started intentionally by tenants. REUTERS/Lee Celano

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Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:36PM

A man stands in flood waters as a fire burns down a home in the seventh ward of New Orleans September 6, 2005 during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The toxic brew of chemicals and human waste in the New Orleans floodwaters will have to be pumped into the Mississippi River or Lake Pontchartrain, raising the specter of an environmental disaster on the heels of Hurricane Katrina, experts say. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

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Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:36PM

Smoke billows in a neighborhood near downtown New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina September 6, 2005, . Floodwaters that swamped New Orleans slowly receded on Tuesday after engineers plugged breaks in levees and pumped water to drain the historic city of the stagnant pool left by Hurricane Katrina. Black smoke billowed across the sky from several building fires, the latest safety threat after Katrina slammed into the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, possibly killing thousands of people. REUTERS/David J. Phillip/Pool

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