New Orleans yet to rebuild any firehouses
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New Orleans has yet to rebuild a single fire station more than two years after Katrina destroyed or damaged 22 of the city's 33 firehouses. Appalled by the city's lack of action, an actor is leading the way in reconstruction of the fire stations.
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More than 80 percent of the city's steel-framed high rise buildings have not been inspected for possible damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and officials said they fear the extent of any problems may not be known until the next big quake hits.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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The city of New Orleans filed a $77 billion damage claim against the Army Corps of Engineers  Thursday for flooding that inundated the city when levees failed after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
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City planners who have been working independently will be brought together to develop a reconstruction plan to rebuild the city after Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin announced Wednesday.
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By Christina Kent, The Miami Herald  Sep. 18--An incomplete roof job and heavy rains left about a hundred residents of a North Miami condominium without a place to stay Sunday night, according to WFOR CBS 4.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.
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There is no sign that the fire in a government building next to the White House was caused by a terrorist attack, District of Columbia Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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NEW ORLEANS -- The New Orleans Saints have fallen behind early and often this season. And they have seldom come back.
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Nearly two years after Columbia shattered in the sky, NASA still has no way of repairing the kind of holes that could doom another shuttle, space agency officials acknowledged Monday in their latest status report on the return-to-flight effort.
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One year after Hurricane Katrina tore   into New Orleans, the region's hospitals and nursing homes   remain devastated and uncertain of their ability to cope with   another disaster.
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By Leigh Coleman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 22--GULFPORT -- Thursday morning, Gulfport fire department officials set fire to a single-story wooden home off Old U.S. 49 in Gulfport to test and improve city and Seabee firefighter skills in a real-life, but controlled, environment.
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FEMA hasn't been cleaning up the hazardous materials on federal land, putting Louisiana's important wetlands at risk
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Investigators probing the sodden ruins at a Charles County subdivision where fires destroyed 10 unoccupied new houses said yesterday that they had found no clear evidence
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The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.
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By AMY WOLD  NEW ORLEANS - A federal coastal-restoration task force is combing the books for money to get more projects built.
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Nearly a quarter-million homes and businesses still had no electricity Monday as the city struggled to recover from last week's devastating thunderstorms.