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Duncan Village locals were shaken after a 19-year-old pupil was hit by a collapsing LED street light on her way home from school on Friday.

Their service was down during the height of the storm because it was too dangerous. imagine an emergency vehicle going up and down this street. and the lamp pole approximate falling on a car or one of these trees falling on stop of someone. it's the reason why their services were down during the storm and also people were told to evacuate or find shelter because this is how someone died. we know at least one person died from a tree falling on top of them. now, we have no cell phone service really throughout the city of new orleans. communications are down. wifi is sketchy. the power is out. al...

>> we were taken aback by that and we didn't want to be a party to a potential suicide, and so we put him off ash and he would keep coming back to us, and became very insistent. i don't think that we had any choice, because we didn't want to lose him, but we really had to proceed, because this is a very valuable are -- operation. >> the first package we devised to trigon was on may 1st. >> we have a variety of concealment devices. and the concealment devices can look like a piece of brick or a dead bird or dog excrement that can lie there undisturbed without draw attention. >> i would put that...

It was unbelievably productive. until about the spring of '77. >> in april, i went to pick up a dead drop as i always did in the same place near the lamp pole. nothing seemed different about that drop, so i put the package down for trigon, and then, well, i had been instructed after an hour or so to go back to check to make sure that he had picked it up. the package i put down was still there, and it was devastating, you know, because we had to say what happened? why wasn't he there? is he sick or something happened to him? >> who knows, because there are a lot of innocent reasons why he might...

The jumping fixture ended around a lamp pole. high winds also blew all sorts of stuff all over the park. that was the real problem. >> we had multiple people who were struck by multiple pieces of equipment and flying debris from the gusts of wind that rushed through this park. >> no one was seriously hurt. emergency crews tended to five kids at the park, 116-year-old had to go to the hospital. parents say the jumping castle company secured it safely to the ground and there was adult supervision at all times. >> we are just very thankful of their adult supervision and their quick thinking with ...