The Louisiana Fire Service is mobilized to support rescue and recovery operations in South Carolina following Hurricane Helene. Baton Rouge Fire Chief Mike Kimble says teams with the Louisiana Office of the State Fire Marshal have built a robust unit capable of urban rescue and swift water rescue.
The teams arrived last week.
A young child is killed in a crash in Claiborne Parish, and troopers say the fact that the child was improperly restrained made the difference between life and death. Trooper Eddie Thomas says 31-year-old Jordan Burton of Homer drove her Toyota SUV across the center line on Highway 146, crashing into a Ram pickup.
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But the five-year-old and ten-year-old in the SUV were not properly restrained. The five-year-old was killed, and the ten-year-old was severely injured.
Here we go again – we’re keeping an eye on the tropics for another potential storm. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Will there be a special session on insurance reform? That’s what nearly every Louisianian saddled with sky-high auto and property insurance rates wants to know. Pollack Representative Gabe Firment, the chairman of the House Insurance Committee ,cautions that there’s almost nothing that the legislature can do to lower your insurance rates.