Some tense moments for some folks in Winn Parish as a wildfire approached their homes. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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Last month’s oil spill off the Louisiana coast could be a disaster for the state’s oyster industry. Joe Gallinaro reports.
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Three Ochsner hospitals are listed among the 250 top hospitals in the country by “Newsweek” magazine. They are Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans, Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center and Ochsner Medical Center Baton Rouge. Regional Medical Director Dr. Quentin Alleva says it’s a tremendous honor.
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Dr. Alleva says Ochsner’s success is based on the fact that it’s a one-stop shop for all of a patient’s medical needs.
Alleva says being named one of the top medical centers in the country helps give patients peace of mind.
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Some tense moments for about 250 people in Winn Parish yesterday, as they had to be evacuated due to a wildfire. Fire District Three Chief Dustin Parker says the fire started along Highway 34 in Dodson shortly after noon yesterday and spread from there.
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Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says it was likely caused by a tractor trailer tire that had caught on fire, and the fire response was tremendous.
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Parker says the dry weather allowed the fire to grow to about two-thousand acres.
The fire is fully contained, and everyone who had been evacuated is now back home.
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Last month’s oil spill from a terminal operated by the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, or LOOP, is threatening the state’s oyster industry. Last month, a cargo transfer hose at the terminal located 18 miles offshore in Terrebonne Bay sprang a leak, spewing more than 31-thousand gallons of Venezuelan crude into the bay. Mitch Jurisich, the chairman of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force, says the oil has now made contact with the coast, which can spell disaster.
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Jurisich says this oil spill could contaminate a large portion of the oyster population, putting a significant dent in the oyster supply at restaurants in Louisiana and beyond.
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Jurisich says this has the potential to be evocative of a certain devastating oil spill from 16 years ago.