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Oral Hist Rev. 2008;35(1):1-10. doi: 10.1093/ohr/ohm003.
In October of 2005 the Historic New Orleans Collection initiated an oral history project entitled "Through Hell and High Water: New Orleans, August 29 - September 15, 2005." The intent of the project was to capture the stories of first responders who worked in the New Orleans metropolitan area during the storm and the weeks that followed. The interview process has been linked with the after-action studies done by some of the local first-responding agencies and has provided a much-needed outlet for first responders. To date over three hundred subjects have been interviewed, and our work thus far has shown us that top-down methods of documentation do not work with an event like Katrina. The almost total loss of communications made it impossible for high-ranking members of the different agencies to control or even know what lower-ranking members were doing. As a result it will be necessary to cast a wide net in our documentation effort.
2005年10月，新奥尔良历史收藏馆启动了一个口述历史项目，名为“历经艰难险阻：新奥尔良，2005年8月29日至9月15日”。该项目的目的是记录在风暴期间及随后几周内在新奥尔良都会区工作的急救人员的故事。访谈过程与一些当地急救机构进行的事后分析研究相关联，为急救人员提供了一个急需的倾诉渠道。迄今为止，已采访了三百多名受访者，我们目前的工作表明，像卡特里娜飓风这样的事件，自上而下的记录方法并不适用。通讯几乎完全中断，使得不同机构的高级成员无法控制甚至知晓低级成员在做什么。因此，我们有必要在记录工作中广泛收集信息。
