St. Amant Chief Officer James E. LeBlanc said that for 46 years the fire station has been used as the community center for the area, hosting weddings, baby showers, graduation gatherings and funeral gatherings.
"So many filled sand bags and late nights surviving one hurricane after another or some sort of natural disaster," LeBlanc said.
The building did not survive the 2016 flood, and the fire department has not operated out of the building since August 2016, LeBlanc said. "We still kept fire trucks in the building, but we have not provided any day-to-day operations from the building since the flood hit the St. Amant community in 2016," he said.