April, I'll see what I can do. I'm nhot sure which departments are still functional but I'll contact the local fire department, who probably have a better idea. It'll probably be about a week before I manage to track things down.
Mark Delaney --- J&A Burbank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughters girl scout troop would like to get in > touch with a fire dpt down in that region. We would > like to put together care packages and get them down > there around christmas time. Can you help me locate > a couple of fire dpts down there to contact in the > short future? > April (wife of troutman) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mark Delaney > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 6:15 AM > Subject: Re: [VFB] OT: Katrina Relief Org Links > > > The major relief effort here in Louisiana is being > done by the American Red Cross. If you put > "Katrina" on your check the monies will only be used > for hurricane relief. > > At the moment in Lak Charles we now have 2100 > evacuees/refugees housed in the civic center with > the number expected to increase. Many of these > people essentially have nothing to go back to > now...no homes, no jobs. If they can not fix the > levee on Lake Ponchatrain and the levee on the > Mississippi, the water is only going to get deeper > in the New Orleans/jefferson Parish area. It may be > months before the water problem is oslved. Don't > expect new Orleans ever to be the same again...we > can probably expect many businesses to relocate to > higher ground after this. So there will probably > also be an economic depression to hit this area as > well. So I urge those of you that can to be > generous...the southeast Louisiana, south > Mississippi and south Alabama areas are really > hurting at the moment and need your help!! > > Mark Delaney > > > On 8/31/05, Wes Wada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please consider: > > Article and links to donate to relief > organizations: > > http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170101420 > > > An organized list of donation links including > links for animal > disaster teams from The Humane Society and two > other animal relief > agencies, and the U.S. Coast Guard > > http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/30/105340/346 > > Please suggest any others working on relief > efforts in the area. > > > > > -- > "So much water, so little time!" > > http://chemprof.tripod.com/fishing.html > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
