The Daily Advertiser: Medic copes with loss at 'Dome

"Acadian Ambulance medic Billy Vincent now knows the real meaning of all four colors on a triage tag. Billy spent nearly four days in the Superdome. Green is considered walking wounded. . . . Yellow means the patient has an injury, but probably can wait a few minutes before being treated or transported. Red means a patient is disoriented or in shock. And then, there's black. "We had to tag some of them black. That was the hardest," Billy said. "I'll never forget those people's faces. To tag a person black means basically that a person is going to die. It means that their sickness and/or injury is beyond the capabilities or manpower that you have available at the time and to treat them would cause others that you may be able to save to die."