Both women had spent the night of Thursday, September 1, on Memorial’s open helipad with about fifty other staff and family members, including Mulderick’s aged mother, still wearing her housedress. Rescue helicopters had stopped coming after dark, and the group did not reenter the hospital for fear of encountering looters. Armed staff members blockaded the staircases. When a group of people appeared at a hospital window, including wide-eyed children, the armed employees threatened to shoot “the looters” if they came closer.
