Crowley Fire Crews and the Community Clearing Roads and Assessing Hurricane Delta's Damage

Crowley Fire Crews and the Community Clearing Roads and Assessing Hurricane Delta's Damage

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3 the high winds and heavy rain took a toll on crowley leaving many without power and damage to homes.

News 1's cassie schirm shows how the community is dealing with the blow.

Fire crews here in crowley have been very busy trying to clear debris falling trees like this one here down powerlines so people can move through the area safely and hopefully get their electricity back onnatsthe town of crowley woke up today with trees fallen in almost every neighborhoodcrowley fire captain craig walker"tha's because laura came through just six weeks ago in that loosened up a lot of these trees that have fallen today."

Snapped poles, downed trees damaged buildingsand many people are't supported after hearing the winds last night.

Sotfor some who did't stick out the storm they came back to their home damaged by a tree.darrell simon, crowley residentsottracy gotreaua, crowley residentfor others it was a close call including a man who is celebrating his birthday feeling thankful.

Jerome baptist, 54th birthday "a couple 5 inches from the house from the car from the truck in the car i did't have the heart tha's a blessing and nobody got hurt tha's a blessing best birthday gift i can get tha's it."and crews are have been busy since early this morning clearing the roadways before even checking their own homessotcrowley fire captain craig walker says luckily this time around they have tractors to help"without the tractor here on this very large tree we would have 2 to 3 hours."

And a team of fighter fighters who care about the community and love what they do."i's a calling not a job.

"a storm battered community is coming together having to pick up the pieces all over again"we all pick up the pieces and everybody helps everybody do you know a lot of people still going through laura cell so i cannot imagine what the're dealing with this is one time in a country that we need to unite together and help each other and make this world a better world."cassie schirmnow with roofs like this one here on the ground throw from this building here and power lines like this one here completely snapped in half the community is feeling very thankful this morning because all of this damage could of ended up killing someone last night and so far we have no reports of any injuries a lot of trees down a lot of buildings down but no lives lost so far.

On crowley 'm cassie schirm news 15" and mayor tim monceaux released a statement saying they do not expect electricity to be restored in crowley for a few days.

Circuits in every substation are down as well as the feeders.