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7-30-21

THERE WAS A FIRE THEN GAS EXPLOSION YESTERDAY MORNING AT ALLEMAN PLUMBING ON HOPKINS STREET IN NEW IBERIA. FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDED TO A FIRE AT ALLEMAN PLUMBING, THE DRIVER AND A CAPTAIN ARRIVED FIRST, THEN THE ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF ARRIVED SHORTLY THEREAFTER AND AS THEY BEGAN TO FIGHT THE FIRE THEY WERE INJURED WHEN THE FIRE INGNITED A GAS LEAK INSIDE THE BUSINESS. TWO OF THE FIREFIGHTERS WERE TAKEN TO HOSPITALS IN BATON ROUGE AND THE THIRD WAS TAKEN TO A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL, ALL THREE ARE BEING TREATED IN THE BURN UNIT OF EACH HOSPITAL. RAYMOND AND LINDA LEBLANC, WHO LIVES NEXT DOOR TO ALLEMAN PLUMBING, RUSHED OUT OF THEIR HOME AFTER HEARING AN EXPLOSION. RAYMOND WAS BRUSHING HIS TEETH WHEN HE HEARD SOMETHING GO “BLOOP” FROM THE TOILET. WHEN HE RAISED UP THE TOILET SEAT, HE SMELLED GAS. HE WENT AND WOKE UP HIS WIFE AND AS THEY WERE EVACUATING THEIR HOUSE THEY HEARD AN EXPLOSION. WHEN THEY WERE COMING OUT OF THEIR HOME, FIREFIGHTERS RUSHED THEM ACROSS THE STREET, AND WHEN THEY TURNED AROUND THEY SAW THE FIREFIGHTERS HEADING TO THE FIRE. THE LEBLANC’S SAID THE FLAMES APPEARED TO BE THIRTY FEET TALL. ALLEMAN PLUMBING WAS COMPLETELY BURNED DOWN.

 

YOUNGSVILLE POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR THREE SUSPECTS OF ROBBING A BANK ATM.  HERE’S CAROLINE MARCELLO WITH THE DETAILS.

 

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(AP) — Louisiana’s ending federal pandemic unemployment aid for its residents Saturday. The move will remove nearly 200,000 people off benefits and cut the payments to thousands more. Louisiana residents will no longer receive an extra $300 per week on top of the state’s maximum $247 benefit. Louisiana also will no longer participate in a federally financed program giving unemployment assistance to self-employed workers and gig workers who are ineligible for state benefits. Gov. John Bel Edwards is ending the aid five weeks early in a deal with Republican lawmakers that will raise weekly state unemployment benefits by $28 beginning in January.

 

LA U.S.SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY INTRODUCED A BILL THAT WILL FIGHT THE OPIOIDS CRISIS, THE PRESIDENT SIGNED IT INTO LAW YESTERDAY.  HERE’S CAROLINE MARCELLO WITH MORE.

 

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