1A SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Guarding against Sweet 16th SUNDAY EDITION mold and more a lifesaving after Debby. 1C celebration. 1D His FEMA setting up shop; heart’s some remain stranded in the right place Transplant doesn’t slow Baton Rouge Red Cross worker. By TONY BRITT
[email protected] teve Landry is no stranger to working under emergency conditions at disaster relief shelters. He’s a seasoned vol- unteer, and he puts his heart Sinto his work. From the death, destruction and displacement brought by Hurricane Katrina to the flood- ing from Tropical Storm Debby, as an American Red Cross JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter volunteer Sharon Phillips moved into a van in her neighbor’s yard with her two dogs while her home remains flooded. ‘I’m devastated, flat-out devastated,’ Landry said Phillips, who had been living in her home since 1986. ‘No one can afford what a flood costs. You’re broke before you start. I don’t know what has I can do.’ strived to be there for people trying to Recovery center opens Monday; no word TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter recover Landry at work unload- from a yet on number of residents still isolated ing bottled water for local personal flood victims. tragedy in their lives. By RICK BURNHAM For the next few days, he will be in
[email protected] Columbia County, helping residents who survived Tropical Storm Debby. The Federal Emergency Management Landry, a heart transplant recipient, Agency will open a Disaster Recovery is a survivor as well.