Sunday, July 11, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Guest speaker Melvin Cohea
After Hurricane Katrina forced Melvin Cohea and seven others to find refuge on roofs, they waited a day and a half before firefighters were able to reach them. But an older man had a dog that the firefighters said had to be left behind.
“Under no circumstances are we gonna leave,” Cohea said.
The time spent waiting for rescue brought the eight survivors together.
“We became a family. We’re going to stick together,” said Cohea, who tells this story in his audiobook “480 Days After Katrina: A First-Person Account of Heroism.”
It wasn’t an emergency responder who eventually helped them; it was a local, one who took the dog, too.
Following the service:
Mel is a skilled chef who has served the upper boxes of the Superdome. He will serve us a New Orleans gourmet specialty following his talk..
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