After Hurricane Laura a non-profit rescue team ventured to Lake Charles, Louisiana to help evacuate residents.
That's when they discovered something horrible.
Disabled senior citizens at the HUD-owned facility "Golden Arms" in Lake Charles were abandoned after Hurricane Laura.
An evacuation bus was sent after the storm, but they were ordered off it. And then, emergency services, just... forgot about them.
When found by volunteer rescuers, they were overheating and in dirty diapers. They were left without food, water, or electricity.
CrowdSource Rescue volunteers arrived on scene, where they administered relief and medical aid, while also making numerous calls to authorities about the situation, trying to escalate it.
After much pestering, emergency services arrived on scene, and then... left. Without a word.
Eventually CrowdSource Rescue and Aerobridge evacuated the seniors themselves, so they could get the medical help they desperately needed.
This is a catastrophic failure on account of multiple agencies and systems. These seniors deserved better than this.
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Photo credits: Crowd Source Rescue