Michigan Air National Guard (MIANG) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Donald R. Hilyer, Firefighter, 110th Fighter Wing (FW), Battle Creek Air National Guard Base (ANGB), Michigan (MI), spray paints a search symbol on a home near Pearlington, Mississippi (MS). The firefighter is part of a secondary search and rescue (SAR) team assigned to look for victims and survivors in and around homes flooded by the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. After completing the search of a home the firefighter places a symbol on the structure indicating the date of the search, the type of hazards, the searching unit, and the number of people found in the structure
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Gulport (ANGCRTC)
State: Mississippi (MS)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SMSGT David H. Lipp, USAF
Release Status: Released to Public
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Date
13/09/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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