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THE STEEPLEMAN'S_MIRACLES.mpg
Michael Williams' car was crushed by a 12-ton church steeple on October 29, 2009 after a tornado dropped it from atop a church while Williams was stopped at a signal light in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. Williams was trapped for some 50 minutes as fire fighters extracted him the his flattened car. The 57, year old graphic artist is now at his Shreveport home slowly recovering, with the help of his wife Judy. Williams talks about the 2 miracles that happening in his live restuling from the ...
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Shootout With Police_Shreveport.mpg
A shootout between a Shreveport Police officer and a suspected bank robber ended in death for the bandit in Shreveport, Louisiana on November 25, after the hold-up at a Capital One bank in the NW Louisiana city. After escaping the scene of the robbery on a motor cycle the male suspect was spotted by police miles from the bank on his speeding cycle. The officer identified as Cpl. Jack Miller, attempted to stop armed man as gun fight took place, seriously wounding the policeman and fatally ...
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Natural Gas Well Blowout in the Bayou
Maintenance on a natural gas well near Grand Cane, Louisiana turned deadly when an explosion killed one worker and serious injuried another on Wednesday, November 18 in the NW Louisiana parish of desoto. Families living by the well were evacuated to Shreveport has the high pressure leak was capped a day later. VIDEO BY MARIO VILLAFUERTE 2009 FOR KMSS-TV FOX NEWS Shreveport, Louisiana
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Fort Hood Father
Levon Adger, of Bossier City, Louisiana called his Army daughter at Ft. Hood, Texas the day of the mass shooting. Adger briefly recalls the conversation they had on the phone. Adger was attending a Veterans Day Parade on the Campus of Bossier Parish Community College, on Nov. 7, 2007 Mario Villafuerte 2009 Video for FOX ,KMSS-TV Sherveport, Louisiana
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Flooding in So.Bossier, Residents Stay
FOR FOX KMSS-TV:Sheriff Larry Deen Bossier Parish Louisiana urges residents in the rural areas of the NW Louisiana parish to seriously consider evacuation, on Nov.2, 2009 as floodwater contiuned to rise. Waters from bayous and rivers moving southward coninuted to over-flow streams and fields, even days of torrential rains drowned the area. VIDEO BY MARIO VILLAFUERTE 2009
BOSSIER CITY EMERGENCY EVACUATION NOTICE
Bossier City Fire Chief Sammy Halphen makes an strong announcement for the evacuation of families in the subdivisions around and near the Red Chute Bayou in Bossier City, Louisiana on October 31, 2009. The water within Red Chute Bayou continues to rise and could result in a breach of the levee within the coming hours. Halphen considers the situation serious and dangerous and urges persons to leave at their soonest opportunity. MARIO VILLAFUERTE, Photojournalist 2009
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TORANDO AFTERMATH in NW LOUISIANA
Louisiana residents of Bossier City clean up after tornado force winds of between 113-157 on the Fujita Tornado Scale sparked fires and structural damage to dozens of homes in the NW Louisiana community, on October 29, 2009. MARIO VILLAFUERTE, Photojournalist 2009
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