Firefighter Blog

" In the utter devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, somebody had to begin searching for the hundreds of people feared dead. And in Gulfport's hardest-hit area, Steve Jackson got to work within hours, and found a man living in a tree. "We walked up to the house, this guy comes out of a tree that's lying on his house, and of course he scared us and said he's been there the whole time, and half his house was gone. He said he was waiting for his wife to come get him," said North Tunica firefighter Steve Jackson. He and others have come back home from the Coast with even more amazing stories to tell. "One house we went into, the whole house was probably two feet in mud. You could see the water line up around the top of the door, and there was a dog trapped under the couch still alive....." More, News3 Memphis