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After a front moved across the state Tuesday afternoon into Wednesday night and sparked multiple tornados, Governor John Bel Edwards declares a state of emergency.
“So that all of the assets, all of the personnel of the State of Louisiana, all of our agencies will do what is necessary to respond to and help the people recover from this disaster,” said Edwards.
On Tuesday a 30-year-old mother and her 8-year-old son were killed in Caddo Parish after a twister touched down in the Keithville area and in St. Charles Parish a 56-year-old woman was killed after a tornado struck her home in the Killona area Wednesday afternoon.
“To have this kind of damage come through just before Christmas, there’s not a good time for it obviously, that may be more than some of these people can bare,” said Edwards.
With a cold front moving in behind the storms and numerous power outages, Edwards reminds residents to practice generator safety to avoid a tragic outcome.
“You all will remember that in hurricanes we typically lose more people because of carbon monoxide poisoning than we do from the disaster itself,” said Edwards.
Edwards said they are already providing aid to those who lost their homes or received significant damage as a result of the storms. The governor asked residents to report their storm damage online at Damage.LA.gov.
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