photo courtesy of KEEL 710 AM
The seven-year-old girl injured in the house fire in Shreveport over the weekend has died. Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux confirmed that this morning in an interview with LRN affiliate KEEL radio.
“By the time I got there, we knew that there were three fatalities and that the seven-year-old little girl was really in bad shape. They weren’t sure she was going to pull through. Of course, unfortunately, she has now succumbed to her injuries,” Arceneaux said.
That seven-year-old girl was the first to notice the fire and called her mother, who in turn called 911. The other three victims are the girl’s five-year-old sister, her grandmother and her great-grandmother. Investigators say all were awake at the time of the fire; but without working smoke detectors, they didn’t have time to escape before being overcome with smoke inhalation. Mayor Arceneaux says he normally does not go to fire scenes because he would only interfere with the firefighters; but he says this was one that he felt he needed to go to.
“It’s a very tender, very sad moment for us, with the mother of the two young children who now have died. So, it’s one of those things that you really don’t want to experience as a mayor,” Arceneaux said.
Arceneaux says this is the worst outcome possible.
“That’s the worst fire fatality during my term, and actually, in a long time,” Arceneaux said.
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