Charles Hood Quotations

Our squad members are getting access to trauma and grief counselors. It's becoming a very difficult task.

Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains. We're just now getting into the areas that experienced the most rapid inundation.

Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains. It's becoming a very difficult task.

Those are areas where the people were probably asleep when the water rushed in.

We don't want to create any more damage than absolutely necessary. But in areas that had high water, we have to go in. There's still a chance that somebody might be in these residences.

What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle debris for 17 days, but I've never searched house to house in a city this size.

That is really going to help give momentum to everybody. As bad as things are out there, we're still holding out hope that we can find others like him.