8-23-21
A FRANKLIN COUPLE HAS BEEN BOOKED INTO THE VERMILLION PARISH CORRCTIONAL CENTER. CAROLINE MARCELLO EXPLAINS WHY.
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A HELICOPTER PILOT FROM LAFAYETTE IS IN STABLE CONDITION AT A BATON ROUGE HOSPITAL AFTER CRASHING HIS HELICOPTER IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. SIXTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD VICTOR GUILLORY WAS FOUND IN THE RIVER LATE FRIDAY CLINGING TO A PROPANE TANK AND WAS RESCUED BY WEST FELICIANA PARISH SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES. SHERIFF BRIAN SPILLMAN SAYS GUILLORY WAS FORTUNATE BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN THE WATER FOR OVER TWELVE HOURS BEFORE BEING RESCUED. HE SAYS HE DOESN’T THINK GUILLORY WOULD HAVE LASTED MUCH LONGER.
More than 20 government agencies, universities and electric utilities in Louisiana soon will be getting electric vehicle charging stations worth more than $1.7 million. The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reports the Department of Environmental Quality is awarding grants to 26 entities for 82 charging stations, using money from the state’s $19.8 million share of an almost $3 billion settlement between the U.S. Justice Department and Volkswagen over violations of the Clean Air Act. Almost $12 million of Louisiana’s share of the 2016 settlement was used to replace 351 diesel engine buses owned by 16 school boards. Another $7.3 million was given to state agencies to replace old diesel equipment and vehicles.
A southwest Louisiana wildlife refuge will be closed for alligator harvest every morning from Sept. 1 through Sept. 6. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge’s recreational areas will be open to the public from noon until sunset on those days. The refuge covers about 71,000 acres along 26 miles of coastline in Calcasieu and Cameron parishes. About 100,000 people visit it every year, many of them fishing for crabs, shrimp, redfish, speckled trout, black drum, largemouth bass and other species.
FIREFIGHTERS FROM ACROSS ACADIANA CAME TOGETHER YESTERDAY TO PUT ON A FUNDRAISING DINNER TO HELP SUPPORT THREE NEW IBERIA FIRE FIGHTERS WHO WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED ON JULY TWENTY-NINTH IN A NATURAL GAS LINE EXPLOSION. TWO OF THE FIRE FIGHTERS WERE SENT TO BATON ROUGE FOR TREATMENT AND THE THIRD IS BEING TREATED AT A LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL. RICHARD BENSON OF THE NEW IBERIA FIRE DEPARTMENT SAYS THE MONEY RAISED WILL HELP THEIR FAMILIES PAY BILLS. A FACEBOOK POST BY THE NEW IBERIA FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION SAYS THE OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT HAS BEEN UNBELIEVABLE.
A SCOTT FIREFIGHTER WAS INJURED WHILE BATTLING A FIRE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT THE E-M-R SOUTHERN RECYCLING FACILITY ON CAMERON STREET. FIREFIGHTERS WERE DISPATCHED TO THE FACILITY AT AROUND ONE THIRTY P-M AND, AFTER FORCING THEIR WAY THROUGH A GATE, THEY FOUND A MOTOR HOME ENGULFED IN FLAMES, BUT IT WAS QUICKLY BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL. ONE FIREFIGHTER WAS TREATED FOR HEAT RELATED INJURIES BUT IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY. THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
Louisiana is considering which of three areas should become the first delta-dominated site in a federally sponsored network to protect, study and teach about estuaries. Nine virtual town hall meetings have been scheduled in September to tell people statewide about the program and hear their thoughts. There are three for each area –- the Atchafalaya, Barataria (BAIR uh TAIR ee uh) and Pontchartrain basins. Louisiana is among seven coastal states that are not part of the National Estuarine (ES choo uh rihn) Research Reserve System. The system is overseen and largely paid for by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It currently is made up of 29 estuaries in 23 states and Puerto Rico.
COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROM SAINT MARTINVILLE GATHERED SATURDAY FOR A PEACE RALLY. IT COMES AFTER THE LATEST SHOOTING FRIDAY NIGHT IN WHICH ONE PERSON WAS WOUNDED. ORGANIZERS OF THE RALLY SAY MOST OF THE RECENT SHOOTINGS HAVE INVOLVED TEENAGERS BETWEEN THE AGES OF FIFTEEN AND NINETEEN. MAYOR MELINDA MITCHELL TELLS KATC TV THAT SHE IS GOING TO BE INVOLVED IN TRYING TO FIND SOLUTIONS.
