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Headlines : Environment

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One man carried a sign with the name of his wife’s family scrawled on it. Children searched lists for names of missing siblings. A mother asked volunteers for help finding her daughter. The sense of danger that was prevalent Thursday and Friday had dissipated but not disappeared. People who had been afraid to come out of their homes for fear of looters finally did so. Police, National Guardsmen and deputy sheriffs from far-away counties and parishes patrolled the city — with weapons at the ready.

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By Chris Adams, Martin Merzer and Susannah A. Nesmith
Republished from The Seattle Times

The entire police force will be pulled off the streets tomorrow & all firefighters, paramedics & emergency dispatchers are also being sidelined.

On the seventh day, the mayor of New Orleans said he would surrender control of his shattered city to federal and state officials, and authorities issued dire predictions of the human cost of Hurricane Katrina.

“We need to prepare the country for what’s coming,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said yesterday. “We are going to uncover people who died hiding in the houses, maybe got caught in floods. It is going to be as ugly a scene as you can imagine.”

Last night, Mayor Ray Nagin said his entire police force would be pulled off the streets by tomorrow and all firefighters, paramedics and emergency dispatchers also were being sidelined. They will be sent to Baton Rouge for evaluation and counseling, he said.

He noted that two police officers committed suicide in recent days, and he said the other uniformed officers were traumatized by recent events. National Guard troops and state law-enforcement officers will replace them, he said.

“I’m not going to sit back and let another one die,” Nagin said.

In one incident yesterday, seven men fired at a sheriff’s deputy who had been sent to New Orleans from another part of Louisiana. The deputy was hauling a boat to a staging area for…

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New Orleans Police to be Pulled Off Streets

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