NEW ORLEANS — A longtime New Orleans firefighter was killed early Thursday morning in a crash on Interstate 10 westbound in Ascension Parish, marking the third NOFD firefighter to die in the ...

Jackson, 41, was a 14-year NOFD veteran and an apparatus operator, someone responsible for driving and operating fire trucks, engines and specialized vehicles to emergency scenes. He is the ...

Fire officials did not know whether the man survived. The fire likely started while the man was smoking in bed and using an oxygen tank, NOFD officials said. No other injuries were reported and ...

Entergy repair crews and the NOFD responded to a transformer malfunction ... concerning the transformers "blowing out underground." Images were received showing smoke billowing out from grates ...