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The Capital One Tower in Lake Charles was heavily damaged while the National Guard clears out debris all left behind from Hurricane Laura. June 7, 2020 – Tropical Storm Cristobal made landfall east of Grand Isle with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. Storm surge from Cristobal reached a total of 5 ft (1.5 m) along the coastline ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.
KPLC and KVHP began airing continuous coverage of Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020, from their studio facility in Lake Charles. The personnel of both stations evacuated to the facilities of Baton Rouge sister station WAFB in the afternoon hours of August 26, as mandatory evacuations for the city of Lake Charles had been issued ahead of the hurricane's landfall.
Lafayette, Louisiana – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [68] Pop 2010 [69] Pop 2020 [70] % 2000 % ...
Early on August 27, Hurricane Laura made landfall near peak intensity on Cameron, Louisiana. Laura was the tenth-strongest U.S. hurricane landfall by windspeed on record. The United Cajun Navy worked with United Way of Southwest Louisiana [29] to provide supplies and relief efforts in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
• Hundreds of thousands without power: Power outages topped 450,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana Thursday morning but power crews worked to restore service throughout the day. By Thursday ...
Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is a brackish lake located on the Calcasieu River in Southwest Louisiana, United States, situated almost entirely within the Lake Charles city limits. The Calcasieu Ship Channel flows along the western side for large ships to pass and is the western boundary of the city limits. [ 1 ]
The Lafayette Police Department has a variety of specialized units, including SRO SWAT, Mounted Police, Traffic Unit, K-9 Unit, VIPER Unit, and one joint unit with the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office, Metro Crime Scene/Forensics. The LPD's new recruits are trained at the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office's Acadiana Law Enforcement Training ...