WAFB Channel 9, Baton Rouge, LA |Targeted List of 400 Homes to be Rechecked
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The state medical examiner said Thursday that about 400 addresses will be turned over to New Orleans police and fire officials to be checked again for people reported missing after Hurricane Katrina.
The addresses were culled from the list of 3,200 people still officially unaccounted for nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and broken flood walls allowed water to spew into most of the city.
Doctor Louis Cataldie, the state's medical examiner, asked local police and fire officials to recheck the addresses because authorities have consistent information about people missing from those locations. Most are in heavily flooded areas of the New Orleans area, including east New Orleans and Saint Bernard Parish.
New Orleans police and fire officials said addresses throughout the city have been checked for the deceased. But, after some of the most severely damaged neighborhoods were reopened to residents, several families returned to wrecked homes to find a missing relative deceased inside.
