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Along with dozens of water rescues, James Webb helped evacuate two nursing homes in Port Arthur.&nbsp;", "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cara Prichard" }, "datePublished": "2017-09-04T18:48:25-0500", "dateModified": "2017-09-04T18:48:25-0500", "dateline": "TYLER, Texas (KETK)", "articleBody": "&lt;p&gt;A former Marine we first introduced you to last week has now returned to East Texas. Along with dozens of water rescues, James Webb helped evacuate two nursing homes in Port Arthur.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While down there, Webb&amp;#39;s friend, Brandon Beaty, posted a video of Webb on Facebook describing the nursing home evacuation experience. That video, as of Monday evening around 6:30 p.m., has been viewed 2.6 million times and shared almost 64,000 times.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Those nurses that knew what was going on down there helped us a whole bunch with getting what they needed to get them out of there,&amp;quot; said Webb. &amp;quot;But at the second one (Cypress Glen), it was terrible. People were still in their rooms plugged into oxygen machines, two feet of water and they&amp;#39;re still plugged into an oxygen machine in the wall.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Webb said he was shocked that there seemed to be no evacuation plan in place. Volunteers felt they had no other option than to take control of the facility to get the patients out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;You knew right off hand four days prior it&amp;#39;s going to flood,&amp;quot; said Webb. &amp;quot;Why not get everything together then so that way in case you do have to be boated out of there, it&amp;#39;s all there.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a video Webb&amp;#39;s friend posted on Facebook, an employee of the facility said they were not allowed to help the residents escape because they were invading the residents&amp;#39; privacy. She said the facility was working with the government to get them out.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Some of these people are shaking, they&amp;#39;re freaking out, their sheets are wet. We were literally up to here in feces, pee, dirty diapers, there&amp;#39;s no telling how much bio-hazards like all those boxes that carries needles and stuff were floating down the hallways,&amp;quot; said Webb.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A man with the Cajun Navy from Louisiana who was around Webb during the evacuation talked to CNN about the rescue.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We didn&amp;#39;t give it a chance,&amp;quot; said Ben Husser. &amp;quot;We took over ownership of the nursing home, restrained the nursing director and we took those patients out. Roughly 70 boats we got those people out got them to safety. They had been in water for two days some of them, diabetic patients with their feet in the water for two days.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The company that manages Cypress Glen is Senior Care Centers out of Dallas. The Director of Communications, Michelle Metzger,&amp;nbsp;provided KETK with this statement: &amp;quot;Our priority is ensuring all patients and residents that were evacuated during Hurricane Harvey are safe and receiving proper nursing care. As that is the sole focus of our entire team at this time, I&amp;#39;m unable to provide more detailed comment.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An anonymous employee of a deep East Texas facility said patients from these Port Arthur nursing homes arrived at hospitals in Lufkin, Nacogdoches and San Augustine in the early morning hours on Thursday.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She said, &amp;quot;These patients were transported via ambulances and charter buses from Conroe airport. Some of the patients were wearing the appropriate evacuation vests complete with face sheets that provide emergency information about the patient, while others arrived with NOTHING. Keep in mind some of the patients suffer with dementia/Alzheimer&amp;#39;s and could not provide emergency contact or clinical information about themselves. Hospitals and facilities have been working diligently to obtain this information and contact family members of the evacuated patients of the two facilities in Port Arthur. Since their relocation each patient has been provided medical treatment as well as have been provided with items for essential needs.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Webb and his crew are headed back down there at the end of this week to help with the clean-up process. If you&amp;#39;d like to donate to their trip, click &lt;a href=&#034;https://www.gofundme.com/HARVEYRESCUETX&#034;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "http://static.lakana.com/nxsglobal/myeasttex/photo/2017/09/04/vlcsnap-2017-09-04-18h47m47s315_1504568882611_25928113_ver1.0_640_360.png", "height": "360", "width": "640" }, "video": { "@type": "VideoObject", "name": "Former marine describes nursing home evacuation", "thumbnailUrl": "http://static.lakana.com/nxsglobal/feedsite/photo/2017/09/04/832c8403d108420fa0c23ecb34305219_25929253_ver1.0_160_90.jpg", "contentUrl": "http://video-static-01.clipsyndicate.com/6bdb/2017/09/04/23/15/82eed325e7c24a638f8d77c8ee9d53cf.mp4", "dateCreated": "2017-09-04T18:02:20-0500", "dateModified": "2017-09-04T18:02:20-0500" } } </script> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" /> <meta name="description" content="A former Marine we first introduced you to last week has now returned to East Texas. 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Along with dozens of water rescues, James Webb helped evacuate two nursing homes in Port Arthur.&nbsp;</p><p>While down there, Webb&#39;s friend, Brandon Beaty, posted a video of Webb on Facebook describing the nursing home evacuation experience. That video, as of Monday evening around 6:30 p.m., has been viewed 2.6 million times and shared almost 64,000 times.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Those nurses that knew what was going on down there helped us a whole bunch with getting what they needed to get them out of there,&quot; said Webb. &quot;But at the second one (Cypress Glen), it was terrible. People were still in their rooms plugged into oxygen machines, two feet of water and they&#39;re still plugged into an oxygen machine in the wall.&quot;</p><p>Webb said he was shocked that there seemed to be no evacuation plan in place. Volunteers felt they had no other option than to take control of the facility to get the patients out.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;You knew right off hand four days prior it&#39;s going to flood,&quot; said Webb. &quot;Why not get everything together then so that way in case you do have to be boated out of there, it&#39;s all there.&quot;</p><p>In a video Webb&#39;s friend posted on Facebook, an employee of the facility said they were not allowed to help the residents escape because they were invading the residents&#39; privacy. She said the facility was working with the government to get them out.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;Some of these people are shaking, they&#39;re freaking out, their sheets are wet. We were literally up to here in feces, pee, dirty diapers, there&#39;s no telling how much bio-hazards like all those boxes that carries needles and stuff were floating down the hallways,&quot; said Webb.&nbsp;</p><p>A man with the Cajun Navy from Louisiana who was around Webb during the evacuation talked to CNN about the rescue.&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;We didn&#39;t give it a chance,&quot; said Ben Husser. &quot;We took over ownership of the nursing home, restrained the nursing director and we took those patients out. Roughly 70 boats we got those people out got them to safety. They had been in water for two days some of them, diabetic patients with their feet in the water for two days.&quot;</p><p>The company that manages Cypress Glen is Senior Care Centers out of Dallas. The Director of Communications, Michelle Metzger,&nbsp;provided KETK with this statement: &quot;Our priority is ensuring all patients and residents that were evacuated during Hurricane Harvey are safe and receiving proper nursing care. As that is the sole focus of our entire team at this time, I&#39;m unable to provide more detailed comment.&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>An anonymous employee of a deep East Texas facility said patients from these Port Arthur nursing homes arrived at hospitals in Lufkin, Nacogdoches and San Augustine in the early morning hours on Thursday.</p><p>She said, &quot;These patients were transported via ambulances and charter buses from Conroe airport. Some of the patients were wearing the appropriate evacuation vests complete with face sheets that provide emergency information about the patient, while others arrived with NOTHING. Keep in mind some of the patients suffer with dementia/Alzheimer&#39;s and could not provide emergency contact or clinical information about themselves. Hospitals and facilities have been working diligently to obtain this information and contact family members of the evacuated patients of the two facilities in Port Arthur. Since their relocation each patient has been provided medical treatment as well as have been provided with items for essential needs.&quot;&nbsp;</p><p>Webb and his crew are headed back down there at the end of this week to help with the clean-up process. If you&#39;d like to donate to their trip, click <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/HARVEYRESCUETX">here</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- story body ends --> <div class="pagination-centered"> <ul class="pagination"> </ul> </div> </div> <footer class="mod-footer"> <div class="footer-text"> <p class="copyright">Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved. 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