After record-breaking heat last summer, Louisiana residents are buckling up for another hot few months. According to the Climate Prediction Center, the region is in for another unusually hot summer.
As float riders load beads and parade-goers pick out spots on the route, a select group of people in Acadiana will stay back. Abby Breidenbach has more from Lafayette Parish 911 dispatchers working this Mardi Gras season.
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Monday was a really busy day for Lafayette s 911 operation.
Craig Stansbury, Director of the Lafayette Parish Communication District, said the day was typical and atypical at the same time. It was typical in that any time you have a major weather event, your calls will jump a lot. But with a typical major event, we will have warning. So it wasn t typical that we had no warning, Stansbury said. But the amount of calls we got, it was typical.
Since 5 p.m. Monday, 911 operators received 208 calls about vehicles stalled in water, and 65 calls from people asking for help to get out of their flooded vehicles or homes.
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Lafayette 911 has moved from the windowless basement at the courthouse to a $9.6-million facility designed for virtually any emergency.
The Lafayette Parish Emergency Communications Center was built with 911 operators in mind. It was designed to allow for new technology and other expansions Lafayette’s emergency services may need.
The board that oversees Lafayette 911, Lafayette Parish Communication District, started planning for the new building in the early 2000s, taking note of how the courthouse basement had to be retrofitted for upgrades, said Craig Stansbury, the director of Lafayette 911. We were outgrowing it (the basement), he said. The board members knew they would need a new building.