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| On Sunday, January 15, 2012, the St. Amant and Seventh District Fire Departments were dispatched to O’Neal Road for a working structure fire. “Over 50 area volunteer firefighters from the 7th District, St. Amant, Galvez-Lake and Gonzales fire departments battled the fire”, said James LeBlanc, chairman of Ascension Parish Fire Protection District No. 1. Mike Breaux, a St. Amant Fire Safety Officer, was one of the first responders to arrive at the scene. As smoke filled the trailer, Breaux said he found family members inside struggling to get a resident out as her legs were caught under her wheelchair. Breaux said he told the family members to leave and rolled the resident out backwards. The cause of the fire is believed to be an open flame near an oxygen tank. |
