Part 3: NICB and Hurricane Katrina: A 10-Year Retrospective
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Over 300,000 Vehicles Damaged, Where are They Now?
DES PLAINES, IL -- Aug. 26, 2015: Each day this week the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) is releasing segments of a five-part documentary video that provides first-hand recollections of NICB employees and law enforcement personnel as they reflect on their roles in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Recognizing the unprecedented number of vehicles that were flooded or otherwise damaged from Katrina, NICB dispatched teams to the region and established the Gulf Coast Task Force (GCTF) which operated from two locations: Baton Rouge, La. and Mobile, Ala. Over the next several months, NICB personnel from all over the United States were rotated through the GCTF where they worked side-by-side with state and local law enforcement officers in identifying and cataloging the thousands of damaged vehicles that littered every part of New Orleans and Mobile—and most points in between—in Nature's random display of destruction.
Video release schedule:
Monday, Part 1: Multistate
Devastation
Tuesday, Part 2: NICB's Initial Response
Wednesday, Part 3: Vehicle
Identification
Thursday, Part 4: Coast to Coast Impact
Friday, Part 5: Birth of VINCheckSM
Today's video covers the challenges and creativity applied to the tremendous task of identifying damaged vehicles.
