Shreveport fire

Shumpert, State Building safely evacuated after SWEPCO circuit lock-out causes power surge.

Assistant Shreveport Fire Chief Fred Sanders shares heating safety tips.

The Patterson Funeral Home in the 12 hundred block of North Market is destroyed by a fire. It started in the 6am hour this morning and was quickly changed to a 2-alarm blaze. Firefighters are expected to be on the scene for several hours ...

A family of five is OK after their Cedar Grove home caught fire early this morning. Shreveport firefighters arrived in the 7900 block of Wyngate Boulevard just before 1:40AM to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the back of the home, where they found a large shed on fire.

A two-alarm fire kept Shreveport firefighters busy this morning. Fire Department Spokesman Scott Wolverton says an occupant of a one-story, wood-frame home in the 3000 block of Parkridge got up to get a glass of water, and noticed flames coming from the utility room...

A pre-dawn fire has  claimed the life of a Shreveport man -- the city's first fire fatality of 2012.

An afternoon fire has damaged one apartment in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood. It was reported just after 12:30 in the 200 block of Olive Street. Fire crews arrived a couple of minutes later to find a two-story apartment building with smoke coming from a downstairs unit...

UPDATE:  Firefighters and police have left the scene.  More details as they come in... Shreveport firefighters are on the scene of a small fire at Picadilly Cafeteria in the 700 block of Shreveport-Barksdale Highway.  Fire dispatchers tell us the fire is now out, now they're trying to get the smoke out...

Shreveport fire investigators have arrested a 14-year-old boy on a charge of aggravated arson. The Academic Recovery Center student is accused of setting a soap dispenser on fire in a bathroom at the school during the noon hour yesterday. He's been booked into the Caddo Parish Juvenile Detention Center...

One person dies in an apartment fire at the Quail Creek Apartments in Shreveport.  Another resident suffered injuries when he jumped from a balcony.