Two days after Hurricane Laura lashed Louisiana last month, President Donald Trump flew into the city of Lake Charles to tour the damage, making a stop at a National Guard armory to snap photos with rescue workers.
“I nearly died from that,” Chagois added. “But they weren’t even thinking about us. They made sure he was safe,” she said of the president. “He probably didn’t even know we was there.”Most likely, he did not. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“All they had to do was call 911, and someone would have come and gotten them,” he said in a brief interview before hanging up. He did not return follow-up calls and messages.But calling 911 didn’t work. Residents and volunteer rescuers said they called for help numerous times — but no one came. A spokesperson for the Lake Charles mayor’s office said it was not responsible for the housing authority, because it “an independent agency” that was “not part of the City of Lake Charles."
Representatives from some of these agencies eventually did converge at Golden Arms. But even then, according to volunteers, they did not take charge of coordinating an evacuation because none of the residents, as vulnerable as they were, required immediate emergency treatment at a hospital.In the end, the National Guard helped evacuate those at Chateau Du Lac late on Aug.
Shannon van Zandt, an urban planning professor at Texas A&M University who specializes in low-income housing and disaster, said the incident underscores a need for a federal policy change requiring older adults in public housing to be part of mandatory evacuation plans. “It’s incredibly lucky that no one died in this incident,” she said. “Next time, it could be a lot worse.”
At around this time, Ryan Nichols, a volunteer with another nonprofit organization, Rescue the Universe, was driving down Ryan Street past Chateau Du Lac, noticed the commotion and pulled over. He was astonished to see men coming out of the front doors carrying people in wheelchairs. When he and his team went inside, they found residents peeking out of their dark rooms. Inside one, a man with amputated legs was lying in his bed, unable to get up.
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