NEW ORLEANS — When the levees broke and 911 went silent during Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans EMS kept moving. Medics waded through floodwaters, improvised landing zones and carried patients out of hospitals cut off from the world. Twenty years later, their stories are being retold — not in statistics, but in the voices of those who lived them.

Throughout August, as the city marks the 20th anniversary of Katrina, NOEMS has been honoring the medics who answered the call when the city went silent. Their stories — shared through a month-long social media series — are leading up to the premiere of “The Ones Who Stayed,” a documentary debuting Aug. 29 that captures EMS providers’ experiences in their own words.

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