Urgent announcement for public safety officers on the Ecstasy and Sensation Cruise Ships
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Release Number: 1603-356
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BATON ROUGE, La. -- Important meetings for residents of the cruise ships Ecstasy and Sensation will be held tonight, Monday, Feb. 20, 2006, at 6 p.m. in the Blue Sapphire Lounge on the Ecstasy, and in the Fantasia Lounge on the Sensation . Only residents of the ships may attend. Media will be briefed after the meetings.
"The purpose of these meetings is to complete the steps which have been taken to ensure that every shipboard resident has a place to go," said Tony Robinson, deputy federal coordinating officer for the FEMA area field office in New Orleans. "Our greatest priority is to ensure that these first responders can continue to do their jobs. Ensuring that each one of them has housing is essential to the mission."
No further extensions can be obtained. These ships must be vacated and turned back over to Carnival Cruise Lines according to the contract which expires March 1. "The cruise ships must leave so they can return this fall with paying passengers so the revitalization of this great city can continue," Robinson concluded.
The residents of the two ships include many police officers, fire fighters, and first responders of the city of New Orleans and their families. Each officer will have a FEMA community relations representative to help with their relocation.
This week in Louisiana : At the close of business on Feb. 18, there were: 42,460 travel trailers and mobile homes on private, industrial, group and commercial sites occupied; 1,703 cabins of three cruise ships are occupied; and 3,010 federal housing resources provided by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) occupied.
The following charts provide detailed information on the types of temporary housing available and a listing, by parish, of housing units currently occupied:
Cumulative Housing Summary for Louisiana
Type | Units Occupied |
---|---|
Travel Trailer & Mobile Home |
42,460 |
Federal Housing USDA - United States Dept. of Agriculture |
3,010 |
Ships |
1,703 |
TOTAL: |
47,173 |
This table shows the parishes with housing units currently occupied :
PARISH |
UNITS OCCUPIED |
---|---|
Acadia |
65 |
Allen |
34 |
Ascension |
109 |
Assumption |
39 |
Avoyelles |
73 |
Beauregard |
214 |
Bienville |
1 |
Bossier |
46 |
Caddo |
30 |
Calcasieu |
3,321 |
Caldwell |
2 |
Cameron |
598 |
Catahoula |
8 |
Claiborne |
4 |
Concordia |
70 |
East Baton Rouge |
1,236 |
East Feliciana |
22 |
Evangeline |
47 |
Grant |
17 |
Iberia |
821 |
Iberville |
26 |
Jackson |
17 |
Jefferson |
13,504 |
Jefferson Davis |
250 |
La Salle |
16 |
Lafayette |
213 |
Lafourche |
325 |
Livingston |
336 |
Madison |
1 |
Morehouse |
2 |
Natchitoches |
28 |
Orleans |
5,842* ** |
Ouachita |
104 |
Plaquemines |
1,624 |
Pointe Coupee |
54 |
Rapides |
32 |
Red River |
11 |
Richland |
1 |
Sabine |
14 |
St. Bernard |
3,297** |
St. Charles |
675 |
St. Helena |
117 |
St. James |
122 |
St. John the Baptist |
237 |
St. Landry |
93 |
St. Martin |
61 |
St. Mary |
145 |
St. Tammany |
7,058 |
Tangipahoa |
326 |
Tensas |
3 |
Terrebonne |
676 |
Union |
8 |
Vermillion |
935 |
Vernon |
48 |
Washington |
429 |
Webster |
5 |
W. Baton Rouge |
4 |
West Carroll |
2 |
West Feliciana |
3 |
TOTAL |
43,401* |
*Does not include parish breakdown for federal housing.
**Includes cruise ships, travel trailers and mobile homes.
FEMA manages federal response and recovery efforts following any national incident. FEMA also initiates mitigation activities, works with state and local emergency managers, and manages the National Flood Insurance Program. FEMA became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on March 1, 2003 .
Last Modified: Tuesday, 21-Feb-2006 10:06:07