Coast Guard and New Orleans police and fire department units were searching the Mississippi River Saturday evening amid reports that a 15-year-old boy, a 14-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl were spotted going into the water near the bank in the Algiers neighborhood and never reemerging.
Units involved in the search included a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, two Coast Guard Maritime Safety and Security Team New Orleans boat crews, a Coast Guard Cutter Sawfish crew and a Coast Guard Station New Orleans boat crew.
The city skyline of New Orleans, Louisiana, and surrounding metropolitan area along the banks of the Mississippi River shot from an altitude of about 1000 feet during a helicopter photo flight.reported that the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority shutdown the Canal Street/Algiers Ferry amid the search.
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