22-11-2024 13:44 via wbrz.com

Officials identify woman who died in Thursday house fire; family says she was one day shy of 65

BATON ROUGE - Officials identified a 64-year-old woman who died after a house caught fire off Napoleon Street behind Greater Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church on Thursday morning.Phyllis Wilson, 64, died in the blaze. According to her family, Wilson would have turned 65 on Friday and the whole family was planning on celebrating her with a cruise set to leave Thursday. The Baton Rouge Fire Department was on the scene just after 4 a.m. Thursday, and the fire was under control by 5
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