New York City ambulance companies are sending trucks and crews down to the Gulf Coast as the region prepares for a possible hurricane three years after Katrina.
Citywide Mobile Response Corp. spokesman Isaac Newman tells the Associated Press that his company dispatched five ambulances along with 15 crew members early Friday from its headquarters on Stillwell Avenue in the Bronx. They left about 6 a.m. and are expected to reach the Gulf Coast in about 30 hours.
Newman says his crew members stocked up on various supplies. He says that they were called to deploy at 10 p.m. Thursday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA did not immediately respond to the AP's�request for comment.
What's now still Tropical Storm Gustav could become a major hurricane later this weekend, posing the biggest threat to New Orleans since the deadly 2005 storm. The National Guard will start moving in today and an evacuation order is likely to go into effect tomorrow. Residents south of New Orleans could be told to leave today.
YWN has learned additional private ambulance companies based in NYC have dispatched ambulances with crews to Louisiana as well - following the request of FEMA.
(Eli Gefen - YWN Queens Ops' Desk)
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