Steve Gleason hospitalized in New Orleans during Hurricane Francine

• They didn't say what happened, but thanked the New Orleans Fire Department and New Orleans EMS for "getting to us during unsafe circumstances."

Zoom in: EMS suspended around 7:30pm Wednesday when the weather got too bad from Francine, the city said.

• However, they were evaluating life-threatening calls on a case-by-case basis, Mayor LaToya Cantrell tweeted.

Catch up quick: Gleason is famous in New Orleans for blocking a punt that was returned for a touchdown on Monday Night Football in 2006.

• It was the Saints' first game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina, and that moment and the celebration afterward has lived on as one of the most collectively cathartic in living memory.
• He was diagnosed with ALS after increasing health troubles five years later.
• The terminal neurodegenerative disease quickly damaged his ability to achieve most basic bodily functions, and today he communicates using eye movement.

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