Shreveport fire

Local firefighters are giving Muscular Dystrophy "the boot" -- beginning next week. Monday, July 18th, is when they kick off their annual "Fill-the-Boot" program. Each year, Shreveport and Bossier City firefighters stand at major street intersections collecting donations from community members...

An early-morning fire has destroyed one home and damaged another. Just before 6 this morning, fire crews arrived in the 1800 block of Poland Street to find a single-story, wood-frame home heavily involved with fire and smoke. There was another single-story, wood-frame home in front of that one ...

A Sunday-morning fire displaces a north Shreveport family. At 3:40 yesterday morning, firefighters arrived at a house in the 1700 block of Bonnie Street in the MLK community to find the single-story, wood-framed home fully engulfed in flames...

A two-alarm fire at the Aspen Apartment Complex in Shreveport displaced eight families. The fire kept more than 40 firefighters busy battling heavy smoke and flames for more than an-hour-and-a-half yesterday afternoon at the complex in the 9700 block of Baird Road...

Shreveport fire investigators have nabbed an arson suspect. Yesterday afternoon, they arrested 23-year-old Derrick Harris of Shreveport and charged him with simple arson for allegedly setting fire to his ex-girlfriend's vehicle in the 4100 block of Raymond Street...

Four teenagers escaped a house fire unharmed last evening. Shreveport firefighters got the call just before 5 last night. When they arrived minutes later to the 2200 block of Queens Highway, they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the rear of a one-story wood-frame house...

A Shreveport homeowner was rescued and revived early this morning -- after his house caught fire. At about 3:45, firefighters were called out to the 4000 block of Bordeaux Drive -- in the Meadows Subdivision -- to a report of a choking victim...