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The Katrina Files: Wildlife And Fisheries & A Bridge To Nowhere

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Mark Cave

Published August 5, 2015 at 12:00 PM CDT

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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries lined up boats to help people who were trapped in the Lower 9th Ward by flooding.

LDWF, Via Historic New Orleans Collection

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Children are triaged after being rescued from the Lower 9th Ward.

LDWF, Via Historic New Orleans Collection

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Members of the LDWF worked around the clock to pull families from Katrina floodwaters.

LDWF, Via Historic New Orleans Collection

This month, as part of WWNO's ongoing Katrina+10 coverage, we bring you The Katrina Files: Reflections of First Responders — selections from oral histories conducted by The Historic New Orleans Collection and hosted by Paul Maassen.

This episode features interviews from 2008 with agents and biologists from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

On August 29, 2005 the LDWF agents assembled in Baton Rouge to travel to New Orleans as soon as the storm passed. They established a boat rescue operation at the St. Claude Avenue Bridge in the 9th Ward by that Monday afternoon, but things were more chaotic than expected.

The Katrina Files: Wildlife And Fisheries & A Bridge To Nowhere

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