Lawsuit alleges La. firefighters failed to search for victims in deadly house fire

SHREVEPORT, La. — The family of the victims killed in an April 2025 Shreveport house fire is suing the city and fire department, alleging crews were not told that “multiple people were inside the burning home” and that the first arriving engine company failed to search for those inside.

The lawsuit, filed on March 6 by Artilious Saxton and Cleveland Saxton, states that their mother, Mildred Carter-Rawls, was at her home in the 2400 block of Kemp Lane with her young granddaughters on April 6, 2025, when the house caught fire, according to KSLA…

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