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Article: FEMA FRUSTRATES NEW ORLEANS CORONER.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2005
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Byline: Nicholas Riccardi Los Angeles Times
BATON ROUGE, La. -- The man in charge of identifying most of those killed by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans coroner Frank Minyard, complained Thursday that federal regulations have unnecessarily slowed that process.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is responsible for keeping the morgue operational, sometimes shuts it down with hours left in the work day, Minyard said. During an afternoon news conference at FEMA headquarters here, the coroner said that on Thursday, federal officials told his people to stop conducting autopsies at 11:30 a.m., despite a backlog of 300 bodies.
Minyard said ...