NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded the city.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday the last trailer in the city was removed on Sunday. The agency said the family living in the trailer moved into their rebuilt home last week.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu said city code enforcement officials and FEMA worked together to get people out of the trailers, which the city complained were eyesores.
FEMA said there were three trailers still left in Louisiana from the 2005 hurricane season.
New Orleans once had more than 23,000 FEMA trailers.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
 
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