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Since 2021, the Louisiana government has granted Cameron Parish residents $5.4 million for reconstruction, recovery and, at the last resort, relocation. For Sheriff Johnson, Cameron will always be ...
Cameron Parish (French: Paroisse de Cameron) is a parish in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,617. The parish seat is Cameron. [2] Although it is the largest parish by area in Louisiana, it has the second-smallest population in the state, ahead of only Tensas.
Mandatory evacuations were ordered for parts of Louisiana’s Cameron Parish, according to an official’s social media. Both mandatory and voluntary evacuations were ordered farther east in ...
Cameron is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the parish seat of Cameron Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area . After sustaining extreme damage from Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008, in the 2010 Census Cameron was recorded as having a population of only 406, a 79% ...
On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey made landfall just west of Johnson Bayou between the village and Sabine Pass with winds in excess of 125 miles per hour. Audrey was the deadliest hurricane in Louisiana history until Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and, though the community suffered severe damage, the Johnson Bayou school experienced only minor damage and was able to reopen by September 1957 in ...
Cameron Parish School Board operates Johnson Bayou High School, a combined primary and secondary school serving the area. Cameron Parish Public Library operated the Johnson Branch at 4586 Gulf Beach Highway in the area until the Mandatory Evacuation for Hurricane Laura in August on 2020. Currently the library expects to reopen in January of 2022.
Winds severely damaged several mobile homes in Cameron, mostly from roofs being torn off. More than 3,000 people were left without electricity in Cameron Calcasieu Parishes combined as winds downed trees and power lines. A few mobile homes in that parish sustained minor wind damage. In Vermilion Parish, a few trees and power lines were downed. [12]
The New Orleans Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness (NOHSEP) was formed in 2008 following the merger of the Office of Emergency Preparedness and Office of Homeland Security. It serves as the “umbrella” public safety agency for the City of New Orleans, coordinating with agencies such as the New Orleans Police Department ...