Article: Residents cope in close quarters: New Orleans evacuee helps 1,200 live one day at a time in FEMA village.

Byline: Karen Brooks

Aug. 27--BAKER, La. -- It's not yet dawn, and already the trailer park needs Wilbert Ross. About 50 kids are standing expectantly at the recreation tent at Renaissance Village, the nation's largest government-funded trailer settlement for victims of Hurricane Katrina. It's the first week of school, but the bus driver has refused to leave the public street to enter the compound. He leaves without the children. Amid the loud chorus of cursing and shouts by parents, Mr. Ross pulls out his cellphone and calls state Sen. Cleo Fields -- whose number he has on speed dial -- and tells him in no uncertain terms that the situation is ...

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