Fireman and historian remembers historic fires in Thibodaux
WGNO-TV / ABC26 / WNOL38
[{'start': '3.336', 'end': '9.141', 'text': "WILL NOT BE SHARING TODAY IS   THE LISTEN THESE GUYS THAT OUR   FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN ENDED   FALLING TO OR FIRE DEPARTMENT.   THEY FOUGHT FIRES.   >> AND DRESSED EMERGENCIES   OVER THE YEARS. MAYBE THEY   REALLY HAVE SOME REALLY   INTERESTING WANT. YEAH,   THERE'S A FEW THAT REALLY   STICK OUT TO ONE FIREMAN AND   HIS STORY ARE KENNY LOPEZ. HE   GIVES US A TOUR OF SOME OF   THOSE SITES WHERE THE FIRES   ACTUALLY HAPPENED.   >> OVER THE YEARS THIBODEAU   HAS A RICH HISTORY WITH FIRES   THAT HAPPENED AT LANDMARKS ALL   LOW OVER THIBODEAU AND OUR   FIRST STOP IS HERE AT SAINT   JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH WHERE   THERE'S A VERY INCREDIBLE TALE   TO LET'S GO BACK IN TIME OF   THE FIRE THAT DESTROYED SAINT   JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH ON LA   ONE DURING THE EARLY 19, 100'S   WAS A MEMORABLE 5 FOR THIS   TOWN. THERE'S A FIRE IN THE   SACRISTY THAT RAPIDLY SPREAD.   >> THERE WERE RELICS OF SAINT   VALERIE THAT WERE BROUGHT IN   THE EARLY 18. 100'S FROM   EUROPE TO THIBODAUX. AND SO   THE FIGHT AND WIN IN AND   RESCUED, SAY ABOUT.   >> HERE AT THIS LOCATION, THIS   IS WHERE THE DAM TOSS FIRE   HAPPENED MANY YEARS AGO. AND   IT HISTORICALLY THE BUILDING   WAS A LUMBER YARD. AND THEN IT   WAS CONVERTED TO AN ANTIQUE   STORE REFINISHING PLACE   RESTAURANT. IT WAS A MAJOR   FIRE. I REMEMBER FIGHTING THAT   FIRE IS AN OFFICE UNDER THAT   ON NOW TO OUR 3RD AND FINAL   LOCATION BEHIND ME. YOU SEE   THE LIBRARY HERE AT NICHOLLS   UNIVERSITY. RIGHT NOW. IT IS   STANDING STRONG AND TALL. BUT   WHEN IT WAS JUST UNDER    CONSTRUCTION, THEY WENT UP IN   FLAMES. AND CAN REMEMBER AS A   YOUNG KID MONDAY AND GOING OUT   FOR THAT FIRE ON MY WAY   ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TOOK ME OUT   THERE TO SEE THE REMAINS THEY   SAY THE MAJORITY OF THE   BUILDING THAT I REMEMBER   SEEING A BURNED OUT ROOF ON   TOP OF A 2 STORY, BUILDING   PAST. LOOKING BACK ON THE PAST   AND TOWARDS THE FUTURE.   CHRISTOPHER REEVE, THE AIR,   THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF TIM   MEADOWS, VOLUNTEER FIRE   DEPARTMENT, SAYS   >> THEY HAD BEEN AND WILL BE   THERE TO FIGHT FIRES.   >> THE YEARS THE PROFICIENCY   ABOUT KAUFMAN HAS BEEN RATED   SECOND"}]