UPDATE: The State Fire Marshals’ Office is holding a 2 pm press conference today, in Eunice, to release information regarding the “suspicious circumstances” surrounding a house fire Sunday that killed a mother and her two daughters. KLFY Dalfred Jones is on the scene and will have an update on this story tonight at 5, 6 and 10 pm.
ORIGINAL STORY:
An early Sunday morning residential fire has left three people dead in Eunice.
According to Eunice Police Chief Randy Fontenot, Eunice firefighters and two other neighboring fire districts responded to a residential structure fire on South Fourth Street at its intersection with West Maple Avenue shortly after midnight Sunday.
Fontenot said a mother, and her two daughters, ages 16 and 8, were recovered from within the home after the blaze was extinguished. He said a police patrolman was passing in the neighborhood and noticed the home engulfed.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the State Fire Marshall’s Office.
