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Armada of boats searches New Orleans for living, dead

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Armada of boats searches New Orleans for living, dead

September 11, 2005

By BOB DART Cox News

NEW ORLEANS � A makeshift fleet of airboats, skiffs from state wildlife agencies, and assorted other craft searched for the living and dead Saturday in the murky, poisonous floodwaters of a slowly drying city.

Officials deployed cadaver-sniffing dogs and forensic specialists across New Orleans in the grisly task of collecting and identifying the bloated, decaying victims of hurricane Katrina. . . .


. . .It's a tough job, said Dick Douse, who owns an airboat tour business in West Palm Beach, Fla.

"It's sad to sit and see the bodies that we have," he explained. "It's a shame and it does bother me. But somebody's got to do it." . . .

Here's the full story: http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050911/NEWS/509110406/1002/NEWS01
 
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