One Dead in Church Point Fire

The Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office fire is investigating a Wednesday morning house fire in Church Point that claimed the life of one person.

According to a post on the State Marshal's Office's Facebook page, firefighters received the call around 7 a.m. from a home in the 400 block of South Broadway. When firefighters got inside the home, they found the body of a female. Neither the name nor the age of the victim has been released.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the fire.

This is a developing story.

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