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Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005

Workers in yellow hazmat suits and respirators push a wheelbarrow of debris past a damaged house with an American flag, amid piles of storm wreckage near a "Rowley" street sign.

Collection

Katrina

Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005

Original title

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Citation

“Religious volunteers gutting houses, Arabi/Louisiana, November 2005,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2552.