Since our IAFF brothers in New Orleans have been impacted so severely from hurricane Katrina, I wanted to give us some appreciation for the stations, department and conditions that we have here. Our New Orleans counter-parts have been working out of trailers for a very long while.
Maybe the story you’re about to read is why the next season of Rescue Me is taking so long to air.
New Orleans has yet to rebuild a single fire station more than two years after Katrina destroyed or damaged 22 of the city’s 33 firehouses. Appalled by the city’s lack of action, an actor is leading the way in reconstruction of the fire stations.Â
“I gave up on ever hoping that politicians in this country — local, state or federal — would step in to help these guys,” actor Denis Leary told CNN.
here’s no question bringing fire stations back fosters a sense of pride, but he said some of the work has just been a nightmare. “It was astounding to me that they haven’t been helped out — that local governments and municipalities haven’t held up their obligations,” Cremins said. “That is basically when citizens have to step in and get the job done.”
Leary said some of the stories firefighters tell are almost unbelievable. He says a firefighter once told him about a station that had about three feet of water.
“He said one of the guys from FEMA came in here and told us that they would pay for the hinge on this door below the water line, but the two hinges above the water line they weren’t going to pay for,” Leary said.
Source: CNN.com              Watch Video at CNN.com
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