Three newborn infants were evacuated from the Hurricane Laura disaster zone in Lake Charles to LCMC Children’s Hospital in New Orleans where they are now in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Nurse Nancy Amato described a harrowing journey from New Orleans into the hurricane zone of destruction:
“The ambulance kept having to detour,” she said. “I’d look out and I’d see the debris in the street. So, he’d [the driver] actually have to go in yards to go around the debris to get to the hospital.”
Amato told WWL-TV, “When we went into the facility, of course, the air conditioner was off,” said Amato. “They lost water pressure, and they lost their air conditioning system. So, everything — the walls were wet, the floors were wet from the humidity, and it was just stifling. “
After bundling up the three babies, including transporting one in an isolette because they needed oxygen, the three left Lake Charles for New Orleans.
Amato says the trip brought back memories of Hurricane Katrina, fifteen years earlier: “It’s been an eventful trip. Kind of surreal since we both were in New Orleans for Katrina, It was awesome. I’m not going to lie. I felt very rewarded that I was able to pay it back. Because they helped us, and we were happy to help them. And I felt so good about it,”
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