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Health Department Lists Deaths from Hurricane Laura
The death toll from Hurricane Laura in Louisiana has now risen to 15.
The Louisiana Department of Health verifies an additional death in Rapides parish.
A 49-year-old man in the Alexandria area died from blunt force trauma while cutting down a tree.
Here are the details on the deaths across our state:
- 14-year-old female, Vernon Parish, fallen tree
- 51-year-old male, Jackson Parish, fallen tree
- 68-year-old male, Acadia Parish, fallen tree
- 64-year-old female, Allen Parish, fallen tree
- Male, Calcasieu Parish, drowning
- 24-year-old male, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 56-year-old female, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 61-year-old male, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 81-year-old female, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 72-year-old male, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 84-year-old male, Allen Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 80-year-old female, Allen Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning from generator
- 57-year-old male, Calcasieu Parish, head injury after falling from roof
- One resident, Calcasieu Parish, carbon monoxide poisoning
- 49-year-old male, Rapides Parish, storm cleanup
The Department of Health says cleaning up after a storm can also be a dangerous time and they urge residents to be extra careful and wear the proper safety gear.
Here are some other tips LDH has released:
- Rest when you need to.
- Decide which cleanup tasks are most important and focus on those first. That way, you’re less likely to be overwhelmed.
- Get help lifting heavy or bulky objects. If you lift too much on your own, you could hurt yourself.
- Try to work with other people, so you aren’t alone.
Anyone involved in storm cleanup should have had a booster dose of tetanus-diphtheria vaccine within the past 10 years.
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