Three New Orleans EMTs share heartbreaking losses to COVID-19 Share Updated: 5:46 PM CDT May 6, 2021 Share Updated: 5:46 PM CDT May 6, 2021
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Show Transcript AND THE FACE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC NEW ORLEANS EMS FACED BOTH TRAUMA AND TRAGEDY ON THE STREETS AND IN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY THAT TRAGEDY STRUCK THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIVES AS WELL. TAKING THEIR LOVED ONES AS THEY WORKED TO SAVE OTHERS AND AS HEATH ALLEN SHOWS US IT’S TAKEN A SPECIAL KIND OF COURAGE TO MAKE IT THROUGH. I’VE ACTUALLY SIGNED THE ER AND CRIED FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE I’M LIKE, I WANT TO SEE I MEAN I’M TRAINED TO WANT TO SEE PEOPLE DO WELL AND IT’S REALLY HARD. IT’S REALLY HARD WHEN COVID CAME AMBER CRAWFORD MET HIS HEAD ON EVERY DAY FEAR ANXIETY PRESSURE CRASHING GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND COVID AND THEN THE WALLS CAME CRASHING IN. I DID I LOST MY DAD AND MY GRANDFATHER WELL THEIR DAD. HOSPITAL A MONTH AND A HALF AMBER CONTINUED TO ROLL WITH EMS HE ACTUALLY BE
New Orleans catches a glimpse of coronavirus impact through the eyes of New Orleans EMS
New Orleans first responders reflect on their experiences dealing with the beginning stages of the coronavirus outbreak. Share Updated: 5:28 PM CDT Apr 28, 2021
New Orleans first responders reflect on their experiences dealing with the beginning stages of the coronavirus outbreak. Share Updated: 5:28 PM CDT Apr 28, 2021
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Show Transcript 8PM. WHEN THE NEW ORLEANS CELEBRATED MARDI GRAS IN 2020 FEWER PAYING ATTENTION AT ALL TO THE CORONAVIRUS AND NO ONE HAD ANY IDEA OF THE PANDEMIC TO COME OR THE VIRUS THAT WAS ALREADY TWO WEEKS LATER, NEW ORLEANS. EMS TRANSPORTED ITS FIRST COVID-19 PATIENT TO THE HOSPITAL AND THE NIGHTMARE BEGAN FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS NEW ORLEANS ARE FOR THE NEXT YEAR NEW ORLEANS EMS HIT THE STREETS BATTLING THE UNSEEN KILLER WHAT THEY LACKED IN RESOURCES EARLY ON THEY MADE UP FOR ENCOURAGE RESOLVE AND RESOURCEFULNESS. AND AS HE
By Mitchell Blair
Jan 16, 2021 7:18 AM
It’s something a lot of seven-year-old boys wouldn’t even think of doing for their birthday, but one Regina boy had a rather unique idea.
Layton Louttit told his family that he would like to go to a grocery store and buy some groceries that he could take to the Community Fridge–a place on Dewdney Avenue that offers those in need a place to get fresh food 24/7. His reason for doing so was so some of his friends at school would be able to eat breakfast.
It was a request that floored his mother Jocelyn, but it was one she wasn’t going to turn down. She does say Layton did have questions.