The New Orleans-area tornado rocked the foundation of the house and sent it flying toward the middle of the street. A teen was rescued from the rubble.
as Dea Castellanos and a man who lived with her, had made it out of the house unscathed, but their teenage daughter, who uses a wheelchair and was connected to a ventilator that night, was still trapped inside the house, Heirsch said. Castellanos’s daughter, who has muscular dystrophy, wound up trapped in her bedroom yelling for help, the AP reported.
Castellanos told the wire service through an interpreter that as the tornado hit the ground, she felt the house spinning before it tossed her one-story home about 30 feet from its lot, leaving it in the middle of the street. “The wife was screaming frantically,” Heirsch told The Post. The man who lives with Castellanos had a flashlight, he added, and was “disoriented and screaming.”out to help the couple. Heirsch said he called 911 to ask for an ambulance and requested firefighters and the energy company. The pressure of the tornado had ruptured the home’s gas pipe, which made a loud whistling sound, and Heirsch worried the house could catch fire with the teenager inside.
She was transported to the hospital, where she underwent surgery, Heirsch said. As of late Wednesday, Heirsch said he was told she was in stable condition.St. Bernard Parish officials did not respond to messages from The Post inquiring about the rescue operation. Castellanos also did not immediately reply to a message from The Post.The morning after the tornado, the family, who is from Honduras, came back to check what was left of their property.
Heirsch said he is storing some of the family’s belongings in his garage and on his patio. Heirsch, who rebuilt his house after Hurricane Katrina nearly 17 years ago, said severe weather and natural disasters are just a part of living in the New Orleans area.he said."… It doesn’t faze me anymore. … If you let it get to you, you’d be sitting in a corner crying for the rest of your life.”
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