BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — One person has died after multiple fire departments responded to a house fire at 6420 Hooper Road on Friday, May 16. The Central Fire Department confirmed ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sid Edwards announced the merging of the city’s emergency medical services and the Baton Rouge Fire Department. The new ...

Baton Rouge Fire Department Chief Michael Kimble said he will remain the top official of the newly merged agencies, and the EMS director will report to him.

According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, the fire happened around 3:30 a.m. on Edgewood Drive near N. 22nd Street. The house was boarded up, and no one appeared to be living there.

One person died Friday morning in a fire at a Baton Rouge home, fire department officials said. Chief Colin Dunn, with Fire District 6 headquartered on Prescott Road, said the initial dispatch at ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Baton Rouge Fire Department arrested a woman accused of setting her ex-boyfriend’s boat on fire. Firefighters responded around 7:45 a.m. on May 16 to ...

According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, the fire broke out around 1 a.m. at a house on Jackson Avenue near the intersection of North 28th Street.