In the bank: Five Louisiana fire departments and LSU have been awarded more than $1.1 million in preparedness grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. LSU is receiving the largest share of the grant funds, $360,870, to purchase two manufactured burn trailers and other equipment, according to a FEMA press release. Fire departments receiving money through FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program include: Cullen Fire Protection District No. 6 ($50,972); Hammond Fire Department ($46,364); Lone Pine Fire Protection District in St. Landry ($56,949); Milton Volunteer Fire Department in Youngsville ($326,877); and New Orleans Fire Department ($278,728).
All together now: Baton Rouge-based Moreau Physical Therapy has acquired Crescent City Physical Therapy, the companies have announced. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. CCPT has been in business since 1983 and is located at 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 615, in the Napoleon Medical Building in Uptown. The New Orleans clinical team and location will remain in place, says Moreau Physical Therapy in a press release issued Tuesday afternoon. Aside from the New Orleans location it has acquired, Moreau Physical Therapy has nine other locations throughout the Baton Rouge and Acadiana regions, specializing in physical, occupational, speech and pediatric therapy.
Green lit: The federal government has approved Louisiana’s request for a disaster declaration for the Red River flooding that caused damage across a half-dozen parishes in the last month. Mike Steele of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness says the Obama administration approved the declaration Monday for Bossier, Caddo, Grant, Natchitoches and Red River parishes. GOHSEP Director Kevin Davis says the declaration will allow state and parish agencies to get partial reimbursement for response efforts. Davis told the Baton Rouge Press Club on Monday that state and local government offices spent about $14 million dealing with the flooding in northwest Louisiana. He says the federal government will pay 75% of those costs. Flooding damaged thousands of acres of farmland, along with some homes and businesses.
