SHREVEPORT, La It s a rude awakening not only for the victim of a house fire but for hundreds of other homeowners in the growing, high-end area of southeast Shreveport. Their fire station on Southern Loop is closed temporarily due to a lack of manpower.
That didn t help Gary Pittman. Smoke alarms woke him and his wife up shortly before 4 a.m. Tuesday. He saw flames coming from one of his home s air conditioning units down the hall.
As his wife called 911, Pittman started dousing the flames with pans of water. Then he went for his garden hose.
Some troubling news facing the Shreveport Fire Department today. Equipment failures have forced the Fire Chief to temporarily close at least one station.
SHREVEPORT, La. Since Shreveport voters rejected a bond proposal in 2019 and the next bond plan fell through the city found a bargain on a couple of used fire trucks to help the department.
The first of two fire trucks retired from Bossier City is in a bay at the Shreveport Fire Department s maintenance facility. The trucks are 2007 and 2008 models. Chief Scott Wolverton says both have about 45,000 miles. The mileage on these trucks, the wear and tear, is really hardly not any at all compared to what our Shreveport trucks have, Wolverton says. Our newest trucks have more miles than this truck has, Wolverton continued, standing beside the truck that s in to get a tune-up and its SFD markings before going into service in Shreveport.
Shreveport Firefighter Dies From COVID Contracted On Duty
Shreveport Fire Chief Scott Wolverton has announced the line of duty death of a Shreveport Firefighter today.
In a release from the Shreveport Fire Department, and Mayor Adrian Perkins Office, Chief Wolverton says that 13-year Shreveport Fire veteran Leonard Coney had died from complications of COVID-19. The release says that this is a line of duty death, because Coney contracted COVID-19 after being exposed while on duty.
The release says Coney spent his career working with Medic 5, and Fire Station #5, on Stoner Ave. He joined the Shreveport Fire Department in August of 2007.