LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — When many people run from a disaster, first responders run to it.

That's what happened after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 20 years ago . While the storm has passed, memories remain for New Orleans paramedics Christopher Keller and Keeley Williams-Johnson, who were on the front lines.

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While they prepared for the pending storm back in 2005, they remember feeling this one could be different.

"We started heading to work. I was driving down the street and I had some elderly neighbors and they were sitting out on their porches," Williams-Johnson said. "They hadn't evacuated and I remember thinking to myself that

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