A 65-year-old Church Point woman becomes the 13th person to die from a home fire in Louisiana this year. State Fire Marshal’s Office spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue says they are investigating the cause of the deadly blaze that took place this morning in the Acadia Parish town…
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Rodrigue says the home also lacked working smoke detectors.
Governor John Bel Edwards announces the resignation of Deputy Chief of Staff Dr. Adren Wilson who has led the Office of Programs and Planning within the Office of the Governor since 2018. Wilson has been named the new executive director of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance in the Obama Foundation. He will begin his new post in March.
And the state reports 75-hundred new COVID cases, 48 fatalities and 2,187 hospitalizations, that’s a decrease of 23 from Wednesday.
An estimated 280 million fish were killed in inland water in Louisiana due to Hurricane Ida. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Inland Fisheries Fish Kill Coordinator Robby Maxwell says by comparison, an estimated 200 million were killed after Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Maxwell says the inland waters of the fish kill from Ida spanned 1.8 million acres. And from a storm in size similar to Ida, Laura in 2020 had an area of about 9 million acres in Louisiana of fish kills.