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<p>St. Bernard Fire Chief Tommy Stone places a firefighter helmet in a "Katrina casket" during an Ecumenical funeral service for Hurricane Katrina Saturday at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette, La., one day before the fifth anniversary of the storm, which took over 1000 lives and devastated the region.</p>

<p>St. Bernard Fire Chief Tommy Stone places a firefighter helmet in a "Katrina casket" during an Ecumenical funeral service for Hurricane Katrina Saturday at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Catholic Church in Chalmette, La., one day before the fifth anniversary of the storm, which took over 1000 lives and devastated the region.</p>

August 29, 2010

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Residents rid grief on Katrina anniversary
August 29, 2010 9 p.m.

Residents rid grief on Katrina anniversary

CHALMETTE, La. - Hundreds of mourners dropped notes, cards and letters - many of them stained with tears - into a steel-gray casket on Saturday in a symbolic burial of Hurricane Katrina.