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SFM: Victim s interaction with oil tanks contributed to explosion, fire
Incident remains under investigation
and last updated 2021-03-04 18:40:47-05
The Louisiana State Fire Marshal s Office on Thursday provided an update on the investigation into an oil tank explosion and fire aty an inactive oil field site that claimed the life of a Longville teen last weekend.
The multi-agency investigation remains undetermined at this time, but authorities say the victim s presence near the tanks moments before the incident has been identified as a contributing factor in the case.
Around 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 28, Beauregard Fire District #2 responded to a call for an explosion and fire in the area of Cordial Lane and S Cooley Road in Longville, which is near the Ragley area.
The Office of State Fire Marshall has released a report on the tank explosion at an inactive oil field site that took the life of a Longville teen. This multi-agency
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Girl, 14, killed in Louisiana oil well explosion
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LONGVILLE - A 14-year-old girl died Sunday after an oil well exploded in Beauregard Parish.
Officials said the explosion happened before 5 p.m. in Longville, near Cordial Lane and South Cooley Road. Authorities still don t know why the victim, identified as Zalee Day, was at the site.
The fire had no other casualties, though it could be seen and felt from miles away, residents told local news outlets.
“The first thing I could see out of the front door of my house was a big cloud of boiling oil smoke and fire,” Ragley resident Brenda Eddins said. “I was in my house and I heard a big boom and a second boom. And then my house shook, and when my house shook, I was like, ‘What is that?’ Then I knew it was something big.