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Saving baby; another harrowing tale of escape and evacuation.

From: Laura Ziegler
Length: 04:20

One family talks about leaving their home in the New Orleans 9th ward as water rose toward the roof, floating their baby in a cooler toward safer ground, and evacuation to relatives in Kansas City. Read the full description.

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From: Laura Ziegler

Default-piece-image-0 The family of Henry Frazier evacuated his two sons, one son's girlfriend, and her 9 month old dauther as the water was rising in their 9th ward home. They escaped through an upstairs window. They put the baby in an ice chese and walked in water several feet high, floating the infant, to the Convention Center. There they saw the horrors so widely reported - violence, neglect, and filth. They made their way to Mr. Frazier's in Kansas City with the generosity of strangers they met at gas stations, who gave them money for their gas and food.

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The family of Henry Frazier evacuated his two sons, one son's girlfriend, and her 9 month old dauther as the water was rising in their 9th ward home. They escaped through an upstairs window. They put the baby in an ice chese and walked in water several feet high, floating the infant, to the Convention Center. There they saw the horrors so widely reported - violence, neglect, and filth. They made their way to Mr. Frazier's in Kansas City with the generosity of strangers they met at gas stations, who gave them money for their gas and food.