News from The Roanoke Times -Team helps Rita’s victims
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News from The Roanoke Times -Team helps Rita’s victims:
Team helps Rita’s victimsThe paper in Johnson’s Bayou, La., described the team as “tougher than a coffin nail with hearts of solid gold.”
By Todd Jackson
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The Roanoke TimesA team of Roanoke firefighters is finishing up a wild, weird and weary hurricane relief stint in Johnson’s Bayou, La.
They’ve killed snakes, avoided alligators, and trudged through muck to do whatever the small Louisiana enclave needs them to do — and the Roanoke team has been accepted by the locals there like a brigade of reinforcements that arrived just in ti
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me.Johnson’s Bayou was ravaged by Hurricane Rita and running water and uninterrupted power has yet to be restored.
Several days ago, the local paper in Johnson’s Bayou described the Roanoke team as “tougher than a coffin nail with hearts of solid gold.”
“This is like a movie,” said Jeff Beckner, a Roanoke battalion chief commanding the team.
It is good to see that our boys are finally getting some recognition. It seems as though they have done a lot of good down there. I hope to post some pictures when they return.
