Deputies were called to Ridge rd, Sunday night after a truck ran off the road and into a storage shed. The driver of the truck and his passenger, a one year old boy, both sustained minor injuries, and luckily no one else was hurt. Alcohol has been ruled... more »
A major fire destroys a Lafayette home on Thanksgiving Day.
Around 7 o'clock Thursday evening, the Lafayette Fire Department responded to a blaze in the twenty-five hundred block of Ambassador Caffery behind Everybody Rides. The mobile home was fully engulfed when crews arrived, and the fire did cause damage... more »
In Iberia parish a family is trying to salvage what they can after a fire destroyed their home.
The blaze broke out around 2 o'clock this afternoon in the 300-block of Bayside Drive in Jeanerette.
There were five people inside the mobile home when the fire started. No... more »
The Louisiana Local Road Safety Program awarded the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office $18,389.00 to purchase a mobile speed monitoring trailer. Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz said, "The trailer will be placed on parish roads to monitor and record all traffic passing during a specific time period. The trailer is powered... more »
Stolen from 228 US HWY 190 in Eunice July 25th, 2010 a 2004 STS 16 foot utility trailer, black in color, dual wheels, pull out ramps was stolen. Simmular to this picture. If anyone has information, call St Landry Crime Stoppers at 337-948 8477. more »
One of the biggest health concerns after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was high formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers. But since then, the fear of becoming sick in the trailers has vanished with a good bargain.
300 FEMA trailers now fill the old Evangeline Downs Race Track in Carencro. Anxious... more »
The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office has been awarded a 2010 Polaris Ranger 500 4x4 and utility trailer through the parish homeland security grant program. The purpose of 4 x 4 all terrain vehicle will be to survey and secure a incident scene, transport first responder personnel to and from... more »
Firefighters are on the scene of a trailer fire on Malapart Road in Carencro. Officials say the trailer is destroyed and the fire did spread to two neighboring trailers. We'll have more information as it becomes available. more »
GONZALES, La. (AP) - The Lamar-Dixon Expo Center will host a public auction of about 400 FEMA trailers and mobile homes beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, parish officials said Tuesday. The auction is a small part of Ascension Parish government's developing strategy to find revenue-producing events for the equestrian and... more »
JENNINGS, La. (AP) - A tornado wreaked havoc in the southwest Louisiana town of Jennings, uprooting trees, blowing down power lines and overturning at least one tractor-trailer traveling on Interstate 10. The National Weather Service in Lake Charles says the twister touched down about 1 p.m. Thursday and crossed the... more »