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New Orleans, LA

Location/Responsible Agent: New Orleans Emergency Operations Command
Subject:  numerous unknown subjects presumed lost in hurricane flooding
Date: 6 - 17 October 2005
Dispatched: 6 October 
Response: one member to escort cadaver dog and lead Virginia's response
Search Suspended: VA teams left 15 October and returned home 17 October
VDEM mission:  VA-056-05

Frederick Co. mission #:  none

Notes: TOVSAR sent one Field Team Leader to accompany three dog teams sent as part of a multi-state response to search the lower 9th ward of New Orleans for flood victims. Several victims were found.