Salvage yard fire causes minor smoke damage

The Ville Platte Fire Department responded at 12:43 p.m., Wednesday, January 7, to a report of a car on fire at Sooner Salvage Yard in Ville Platte. According to the fire department, the fire began when employees of the business were cutting an old car with a torch and it caught fire. Four fire trucks and 17 firefighters responded and quickly extinguished the fire. The majority of the damage occurred to the car itself, but the building also received some smoke damage. (Gazette photo by Steve Hallam)