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A daring rescue mission. first paddling critically ill patients across flooded roads and then carrying them up seven flights of stairs to the top of this parking deck. >> we are trying to get them some help. >> whats going to happen if we dont get them out of here? >> two of them have already died here on this ramp waiting to get out in this very spot. they watched as all the patients of another hospital evacuated from the parking deck as the

>> we are their only hope and we are trying as hard as we can to get them some help! what is going to happen to some of these patient if you dont get them out of here? >> two of them have already died on this ramp waiting to get out in this very spot! >> reporter: it was nearly a week after katrina first made landfall that the last patient was finally evacuated. ♪ >> reporter: but the hospital that had never shut its doors for nearly 300 years never survived and charity never reopened and the ...

We are stranded. please help. >> initially we lost power, and different parts of the hospital had trouble getting backup generators to work. >> reporter: but still, nothing. so determined to take matters into their own hands, the team at charity paddled ill patients down the street to a nearby parking deck. the roof served as a makeshift heliopad. time had run out. >> we are their only hope. and we are trying as hard as we can to get them some help. whats going to happen to some of the patient k...