The state Fire Marshal’s office is calling for caution with the use of home medical oxygen tanks around anything flammable. This after a St. Martinville woman died last weekend in a house fire. She was a smoker, and also using oxygen. Fire Marshal’s spokesperson Ashley Rodrigue says if someone in your home uses oxygen, keep it at least 5 feet away from anything that can make a spark…:

CUT 08  (11)        “…ignitable liquids.”

A former caseworker at the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services calls the environment within the state agency toxic. Stacey McPherson left her job as a Rapides foster care worker in July. She says supervisors failed to address repeated complaints and concerns…:

CUT 10(11)      “…from us.”

DCFS told state lawmakers more money and more employees will help, but offered no real plan of action to improve child safety.

The three-digit 988 suicide intervention phone number launched in mid-July received more than 1,400 calls in its first month

CUT 01(33)      “…Thorington.”

The head of the Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners is among two people arrested on drugs and weapons charges, following a high speed chase down I-12 in Livingston Parish Tuesday night. 37-year-old Bridgette Hull was found in possession of fentanyl meth and illegal guns. Her boyfriend was also arrested.