Indiana firefighters rescue a Canada goose frozen in the wet sand along the shore of Lake Michigan
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division shared images of the goose curled up on the frozen sand at Indiana Dunes State Park on December 26, 2022.
Two elderly women, one of whom was in a wheelchair, escaped a residential fire in New Orleans Tuesday morning.
According to a press release issued by officials, the New Orleans Fire Department “received a call at 8:41 a.m. reporting a residential fire with possible persons trapped.”
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Eight NOFD units rushed to the scene within minutes, but when they arrived they found that the two residents, a 104-year-old woman in a wheelchair and another elderly resident, had already escaped.
The wheelchair-bound woman “suffered smoke inhalation and received second-degree burns to her hands and knees. Her hair was also singed by the fire,” the department reported. “A second elderly woman also suffered from smoke inhalation.”
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Both women were treated at the scene and taken to a hospital for further treatment. A third resident, an adult male, was not home at the time of the fire.
Investigators say the fire started in a center room of the single-family home and damaged most of the house.
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The fire was brought under control around 9:09 am and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
