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Sunday, September 11, 2005
Hurricane hero watches his New Orleans house flood then burn down
After plucking 13 people from the flood waters and saving an 88-year-old drowning neighbor, a New Orleans man returned to his flooded home only to find it burning. "I walked out of my home knowing I'd never walk in that house again. I walked out of there with only a few of my worldly possessions, which I put in my canoe. . . . What I saw, as horrifying as it all was, is probably only a third of what other people were seeing," Carriere said. Andrew Griffin of The Town Talk (Alexandria, La.) interviewed Carriere, who had driven to Alexandria in a rental car after he was flown out to Arkansas.
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