United Cajun Navy on front lines of Milton rescue, recovery efforts

Now that Hurricane Milton has pushed out of Florida, Louisiana crews are working to help Floridians recover from the storm. The main mission now is rescuing storm survivors, and technology is playing a major role in finding those survivors.

"We have incredible volunteers that are manning, basically, all of the social media platforms that we're on," United Cajun Navy vice president Brian Trascher said.

Trascher told WWL's Tommy Tucker that volunteers are scouring social media and answering text messages and phone calls to reach people who need to be rescued. Those messages then are vetted and relayed to rescue crews on the ground and in the air.

"We use a system called 911 I-Net, which is like a radio/cell phone hybrid that operates on a lot of different frequencies, and we can also see the positions of where our teams are," Trascher said. "We can also communicate with aircraft in the area."

Trascher says it's hard work, but it's a worthwhile mission.

"It seems like it's really organized, but we always like to say that we're good at making the Hindenburg look like a normal on-time blimp landing," Trascher said. "It just sort of comes together."