They are the youngest and the tiniest victims
refugees of Hurricane Katrina.
These babies rescued from a flooded hospital in
New Orleans, airlifted to Medical City,
Dallas Hospital, had no lighting at all,
no running water
with water everywhere.
White nurse Tim Beasley says the hospital was
cut off. The situation
dire. When we looked down, the whole bottom
floor of the hospital was flooded.
And when we arrived, there was a team of
nurses, about 10 nurses standing on the
top of the building waiting for us to land.
And they were just holding the babies
there, getting the babies out first.
I hope they got the rest of patients out of
there.
Beasley's partner, flight nurse David Campbell,
says the conditions inside the hospital were
hot and dark.
Couldn't see a thing.
I mean, you had to carry around flashlights.
It was it smelled like wet dog.
The Dallas flight crew, pleased they were able
to rescue the hurricane's youngest victims,
are still struck by what they saw
you could see all across the city.
And, you know, it's it's a swamp.