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A casket is loaded into a hearse at the Boyd Funeral Home as burials at cemeteries are delayed to the surge of COVID-19 deaths on Jan. 14, 2021 in Los Angeles.

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Health & Safety

'We Have No Space': LA County Funeral Director Describes Virus's Toll

5:51pm January 20, 2021

by Noel King

Todd Beckley, a funeral director in Los Angeles County, says COVID-19 deaths have overwhelmed his mortuary. It is so overwhelmed there is waiting list that's 23 families long.

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A coffin is seen in a flooded cemetery in August in Sorrento, La.

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Keeping The Dead In Their Place

6:54am September 23, 2016

by Martha Ann Overland

Unidentified coffins are a big problem in Louisiana, especially when they end up floating down flooded city streets.