Nursing Home/Senior Living, Residential Simmesport, LA – Sprinkler system activates to stop fire in nursing home storage room March 29, 2017 viking210 “Always on a Sunday.” That’s what Bayou Chateau Nursing home owner Gerard LaCour could say in a moment of relief following the evacuation of his facility just hours earlier. Around 6 p.m. Sunday, the nursing home’s sprinkler system and fire alarm were activated after what LaCour said were “problems in a storage room.” First responders including Simmesport Police and Fire and Acadian Ambulance got to the nursing home and quickly worked to evacuate residents. According to Acadian’s Twitter account, two patients were moved to other nursing facilities and one was taken to an area hospital. According to the captain of Simmesport Fire Department and Simmesport City Councilman Jacob Coco, there was no fire damage, but there was water in the building due to the sprinkler system. He said that much of that water was quickly cleaned up by members of the community who responded to the scene, including the mayor. Coco said that once the scene was cleared, they were able to bring the residents back to the nursing home.
