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According to Lafayette Fire Department spokesperson Alton Trahan, they responded to a reported house fire last night at 227 Benjamin Street shortly before 8:40 pm. When firefighters arrived on the scene, the house was fully engulfed.
Officials with the State Fire Marshal's Office are continuing their investigation of a fatal house fire in Abbeville that happened in the early hours of Wednesday, December 2.
An Iberia Parish sheriff's deputy is dead and another deputy has been hospitalized with first-degree burns and smoke inhalation after a mobile home fire in Erath.