Just before 5:30pm on a rainy Monday, March 9, black smoke started to rise from the Ponchatoula neighborhood southeast of the railroad crossing at Pine Street. During a ferocious lightning storm, one of the steeples that gave the Twin Steeples Creative Arts Center its name was struck by lightning and immediately erupted into flames.Ponchatoula Volunteer Fire Department (PVFD) sirens bega...
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