Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated. If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them - then that became 18.

There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes to go to, no hotels. There is nothing here.

Some left because they simply couldn't handle the catastrophe.

There are, to our surprise, thousands of people still in the city that we're trying to identify and locate. We're trying to convince them there's nothing for them here — no food, no jobs, nothing to let them live the way they're used to.

They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm. They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we have never heard from them.

This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm.

We advise people that this city has been destroyed, it has completely been destroyed.

Look, some men have left our ranks because they couldn't deal with this catastrophe.