BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Multiple fire departments are receiving fire blankets to better combat electric vehicle fires.

The 75-pound silica blankets can endure up to 2900 degrees Fahrenheit, according to FireIsolator, the blanket’s manufacturer.

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According to the St. George Fire Department, the fire happened at the home on Carrie’s Orchard Drive near where the road ...

Lillian Asala, a 13-year-old from Wisconsin, was reported missing on March 1 and was safely recovered on March 7 after an ...

Deputies are investigating an explosion and fire that claimed the life of a 63-year-old Thibodaux man, which occurred around 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to a home in the 2500 block of Bunker Hill Drive around 6:20 a.m. Firefighters ...

A 75-year-old man was killed in a one-alarm house fire in a neighborhood off College Drive early Thursday morning, according ...

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins caught up with DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old cancer survivor honored by President Donald Trump during his address to Congress. The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to a duplex ...

The crash happened around 9:07 p.m. The Baton Rouge Police Department said the driver of a Honda Accord was heading south on Nicholson Drive and attempted to make a left turn onto South Quad Drive ...

In addition to the throngs of library supporters who showed up to last week's Metro Council meeting to make their hisses heard, the plan has drawn fire from ... in Baton Rouge," Central Mayor ...

About 5,400 Defense Department employees will lose their jobs next week, the first cuts in what will ultimately be a five-to-eight-percent reduction of the civilian workforce, a Pentagon official ...