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Multiple fire departments responded to a blaze at a home in Abbeville early on Labor Day morning.
Shortly after midnight on Labor Day morning, the Abbeville Fire Department received a phone call at the Main Station reporting a house on fire at 701 Clover St.
The Abbeville Fire Department, the Erath Volunteer Fire Department, the 7th Ward Volunteer Fire Department, and the Henry Volunteer Fire Department arrived to find a two-story home with fire already burning on both floors.

PECAN ISLAND, La. – SpaceX has announced it will invest $100 billion to build its largest launch facility in Vermilion Parish, a spaceport designed to support thousands of launches annually and unlock spaceflight on an unprecedented scale.
The historic project will establish Louisiana as a global hub for next-generation aerospace, with the capacity and infrastructure needed to dramatically increase launch frequency and expand access to space.

Anticipating a surge of workers next year because of the construction of SpaceX in South Vermilion Parish, the Police Jury has started planning for the arrival of hundreds of workers and their campers, who may call the parish home for two to three years or more.
On Tuesday, Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to make the annoucement that SpaceX will be building a billion-dollar facility in South Vermilion Parish, near the Gulf of Mexico. He will be in Abbeville to make that annoucement.