Gas leak in Maurice nursing home; no one injured

MAURICE - With the temperature at 45 degrees outside, crews worked to get more than 100 residents of a Vermilion Parish nursing home back inside after a carbon monoxide scare. The leak was caught early enough and no one became sick.
It happened at Pelican Pointe Nursing Home along Milton Road in Maurice. The facility was quickly evacuated, sending 117 residents outside during the chilly night.
The carbon monoxide scare sent 117 residents, most of them elderly, out into the chilly 45 degree night Friday.
According to KATC, the Amana Christian Fellowship, just up the road from the nursing home, was a god send.
“I got a phone call that they needed the church. I was about five minutes away. We opened the doors and they became to come,” says Senior Pastor Terell Reed with Amana Christian Fellowship.
“I tell you it was amazing, they were actually wheeling them down the highway, and coming into the parking lot with wheelchairs and just going in,” says Senior Pastor Reed to KATC.
Maurice Fire Chief Matthew Trahan credits several agencies with handling a critical situation, and that’s not all.
“(Also) The family members that came forward to help. We have a whole lot of people to thank, and thank God with a carbon monoxide leak we have no injuries,” says Trahan.
That family, becoming an extended family Friday tonight, the warmth of complete strangers battling the freezing temperatures.
“Because we all know each other. And they are family even though they’re not related,” says Linda Broussard, as she helped residents evacuate, according to KATC.
“Thank you,” says Lona Broussard, resident at Pelican Pointe Nursing Home.