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6 days after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast states, with New Orleans, Louisiana taking the brunt of the killer storm. l to r- Maggie McEleney, John Lee, Janet Clouden, Kema Smith and Patrick McCarthy, join in prayer for their neighbor and…

Aerial photographs of a helicopter evacuation over the ninth ward following Hurricane Katrina.

Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents chose not to evacuate as Hurricane Katrina steered east from the city, bringing along with it many of the rescue effort. As the sun rose over downtown, it revealed that two of the main levees had broken…

A survivor is given a helping hand getting of a boat on arrivel to Banda Aceh. She was amongst survivors picked up by boats from the islands and along the coastline outside Aceh.

Seven-year-old Dillon Chancey and his parents clung to trees and rooftops to survive the deadly storm surge of Hurricane Katrina that demolished their Biloxi home. Exhausted but alive, Dillon helps comb through the rubble to find what’s left…

Specialist Alfredo Ramos, a National Guard soldier from a San Diego unit, center, lifts Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, onto an ambulance gurney in front of his home. New Orleans Medics, National Guardsmen and members of the FEMA California Task Force 5…

Evacuees from the Superdome argue as they try to get lined up for a bus trip to the Houston Astrodome on Thursday September, 01, 2005, days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans.

As flames rush down the hill toward her house, a woman screams for her remaining family members to evacuate during the School Canyon Fire in Ventura, Calif., on November 18th, 2005. The fire, which started on School Canyon Road at 3,00 am, quickly…

Terri Johnson pleads for oxygen for her patient, Dorothy Duvic, outside the New Orleans Convention Center where tens of thousands of people were stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

A Hurricane Katrina victim lies dying outside the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Thursday, September 1, 2005. Louisiana State Police trooper Jason Martel of Troop E in Alexandria came to her aid with an orange, picking her up and away for help,…