Florida - 3  Airboat  Search  and  Rescue
 
MISSION  STATEMENT
 
The mission of Florida-3 Airboat Search and Rescue is to save lives, reduce human suffering and render aid in the event of any manmade or natural disaster involving flooding or required water search, rescue and recovery. 
 
Florida-3 Airboat Search and Rescue will be prepared and ready to respond to instances of manmade or natural disasters, to perform emergency rescue operations, render aid and assist in search and recovery operations upon orders of cooperating local and state governmental agencies.
Florida-3
    Airboat Search and Rescue
                                                                  Tampa, Florida                                                 
ANNOUNCEMENT
 
FL-3 Airboat Search and Rescue is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Deichmann, MD, of Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans as the newest member of the team and medical liaison.
 
Doctor Richard Deichmann is author of CODE BLUE:  A Katrina Physician’s Memoir.  http://www.rdeichmann.com
 
Doctor Deichmann was chief of medicine at Memorial Medical Center in August 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.  http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=oFQevmbM-KEC&dq=code+blue+richard+deichmann&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=LWHqRluwCQ&sig=WmnL8CX0c9wnJzA8uypuic9-QN8#PPP1,M1
 
Doctor Deichmann graduated from Tulane medical school and completed his training in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC.   A native of New Orleans, he moved back to his hometown after completing his training in 1986 and had practiced at Baptist Hospital until Katrina. He continues his work as a physician, teacher and clinical researcher at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.
 
The entire FL-3 Airboat Search and Rescue team welcomes aboard Doctor Richard Deichmann.