Pregnant woman hospitalized after Express Inn fire in Lafayette
LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)– A pregnant woman is in the hospital after a fire at a Lafayette motel on Evangeline Thruway Wednesday evening. She is expected to be okay and is being treated for smoke inhalation.
News 10 spoke with the family of five who were staying in a room at the motel. A pregnant woman, her three children, and her mother were staying at the motel. When it caught fire, they all safely escaped, though the woman ran back inside to save the family’s dog.
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“I was in my room, and I heard some commotion going on, some hollering. So I got up and opened the door up. I smelled smoke, seen smoke, came running out and running down, and there was a room on fire,” Randall Waggoner said.
“My first reaction was to get the people in the room out, and that’s what I ran upstairs to do,” he said. “Thank God that they’re safe and the stuff in the room can be replaced. A life can’t.”
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Alton Trahan with the Lafayette Fire Department said firefighters responded just after 5 p.m. When they arrived, smoke was coming out of an upstairs bedroom. Trahan said the fire may been caused by cigarettes or matches.
“Once we did the investigation, we determined the fire originated in the bathroom. So we’re kind of looking at smoking material perhaps because there’s nothing else there beside a human being doing something inside the bathroom. So, everything is safe right now. Fortunately, that was the only room that was damaged,” Trahan added.
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