LAFAYETTE, La.- Congratulations are in order for Engineer Leon, Firefighter Roy, Firefighter Bourgeois, Engineer Sargent, Captain Denais, Captain Duplechin, and Engineer Bourque.
They have each received the Meritorious Service Award, for rescuing a person who was trapped in her vehicle in June in a flooded area of the Jefferson Street underpass. The firefighters broke the window of the vehicle and rescued the victim from her vehicle, in the flood waters.
