Kentucky crews return home from Louisiana

The following is a brief one-page summary made by the Kentucky Emergency Operations Center, based in New Orleans, to the Louisiana Office of Public Health.

Kentucky crews assigned to the Kentucky EOC began returning home Thursday morning.

9-03-05, 2100: Arrived Baton Rouge EOC from Kentucky. Sign in, introduction briefing.

9-03-05 2330: Directed to East Side Fire Dept, Baton Rouge, for group staging area.

9-04-o5 0100: Standing by in staging area in support of local fire and EMS agencies and preplanning.

9-04-05 2300: Ordered for immediate departure to I-10 and Hwy 610 interchange in New Orleans with all personnel, vehicles and supplies. Our mission is to establish a unified command to support search and rescue, medical triage and treatment of refugees. Mission is expected to last 48 hours providing command and support to multi-jurisdictional, multi-state force (multiple disciplines).

9-05-05: Deployed 80 boats with 300+ people to provide recon, search and rescue, and evacuation. Multiple missions were launched over the next 36 hours in specific areas of New Orleans. Throughout the event we received multi-state physicians, RNs, EMTs, paramedics, search and rescue teams, ambulances including an air ambulance. Teams made contact with 350 residents and assisted in the evacuation and treatment of 68.

9-06-05 2000: Closed post and terminated mission. Returned to Baton Rouge EOC for personnel sign-out. Returned to staging area in support of local fire and EMS agencies.

9-07-05: Remained in staging are in support of fire and EMS agencies.

9-08-05 0600: Mission terminated authority KY state EOC.

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