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mamadrama
The Living Force
This was a news segment with interviews of a few of the 9 New Orleans' firefighters who were near the levy when it was breached. One of the firefighters filmed it with his video camera and this film was used in a recent Congressional investigation. The firefighters testified at these hearings but were told to keep quiet about what they saw which differed from the "official" story. According to them, and with footage to prove it, they claimed the levee was broken, not that the water overtopped. They also claimed that is was breached by 9am in the morning and the official story was 9:45am. National Geographic did a story called the The Drowning of New Orleans based at least partially on what these firefighters reported.
Ruth
The Living Force
The media story is by 4WWL and is about a video taken by Capt Paul Helmer, one of the 9 firefighters 'holed up' in Lake Marina Tower during huricane Katrina. Shortly after 9am in the morning water was observed rising in the Lake Marina Towers car park. It was at that time that the firefighters assumed that the levy had been breached. It wasn't until visibility cleared that Capt Helmer was able to take a video of the breach 'about half a mile away'.
One of the firefighters swam out to find a boat which they hot-wired and spent the next 4 days rescuing as many people as possible.
The reason that we haven't seen this video before is because it was used for the Congressional Investigation and although the firefighters testified at this invesitgation, they were told to 'stay quiet' until it was completed. They knew that what was being said shortly after Katrina about the levy 'over-topping' and then being breached at approximately 09.45am was incorrect. It couldn't have happened that way as the water was already rising rapidly in the carpark of the Lake Marina Towers just after 9am.
This is just another example of how the government tries to cover up things or lie, and gets caught out, at least that is what it seems to me.
One of the firefighters swam out to find a boat which they hot-wired and spent the next 4 days rescuing as many people as possible.
The reason that we haven't seen this video before is because it was used for the Congressional Investigation and although the firefighters testified at this invesitgation, they were told to 'stay quiet' until it was completed. They knew that what was being said shortly after Katrina about the levy 'over-topping' and then being breached at approximately 09.45am was incorrect. It couldn't have happened that way as the water was already rising rapidly in the carpark of the Lake Marina Towers just after 9am.
This is just another example of how the government tries to cover up things or lie, and gets caught out, at least that is what it seems to me.
