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Firefighters feel 'betrayed' after multiple break ins Saturday night
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BATON ROUGE - Deputies responded to two separate car burglaries Saturday night, with both incidents occurring at different fire stations in East Baton Rouge Parish.
Firefighters returned from a late night call to find someone had broken into multiple employee vehicles at the East Side Fire Department on Old Hammond Highway.
"It's a betrayal of trust, that you park out here and we're here to do good, we're here to serve the people, we're here to help and somebody takes advantage of it," Captain John Taylor said.
The burglars shattered the window of the district chief's truck. Deputies said two personal guns were stolen.
"They came in, broke the windows, they looked for anything they could grab pretty easily, cash, guns, things on that line," Taylor said.
Luckily, they couldn't get any further.
"The stations are secured at night, we have locks on all the doors and the bay doors are locked so they weren't able to get inside so it looks like they just hit the vehicles," Taylor said.
The fire station is a public building, with no restrictions on people getting into the parking lot.
"You notice there's no fences or gates around, and people see that opportunity and take it," Taylor said.
Taylor said deputies had just left St. George Fire Station 66 for the same call when they showed up to East Side. Deputies said a personal vehicle was broken into at St. George. Two personal guns were also stolen from St. George.
Neither fire station had security cameras set up where the burglaries took place.
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