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Katrina: A Freight Train Screamin’
Cary Black
Photo: FEMA Photo
Published by Red Owl Publications Copyright 2010
Katrina: A Freight Train Screamin’
Copyright © 2010 Cary Black
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced mechanically, electronically, or by any other means without written permission of the author.
ISBN 0-9754279-3-8 printed edition
ISBN 0-9754279-6-2 e-book edition
Book design: Cary Black
Cover design: Gerry Mercieca of Eclipse Graphic Design
Published by Red Owl Publications, L.L.C
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Freeland, MI 48623
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E-book edition by:
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Table of Contents
Foreword by Gerald Pool
Chapter 1: Here before the Storms
Chapter 2: America’s Gulf Coast
Chapter 3: Pam: The Hurricane the Year Before
Chapter 5: She Came out of the Southeast
Chapter 7: In the Eyes of the People
Section 2 At Home on the Tracks…the Water’s a Risin’
Chapter 9: Captain Richard M. McCurley, Engine 4, NOFD
Chapter 10: Superintendent Chief Charles Parent, NOFD
Chapter 11: Capt. Joe Fincher, Engine 18, NOFD
Chapter 12: 8th District Chief Gary Savelle, NOFD
Chapter 13: Chief Thomas Stone, St. Bernard Parish FD
Chapter 14: Preservation at All Costs
Chapter 15: The 5th District: The New Orleans Police Dept.
Chapter 16: The FEMA Volunteer Firefighters
Chapter 17: Chief Jim O’Neill,Task Group Commander
Chapter 18: Volunteer Firefighter Jim Prince
