By Alena Maschke
The Advocate
Lauren Little pokes her head into the small office at the Beauregard Parish Arena that has become the de facto headquarters of the mission to rescue livestock from the ever-encroaching fires threatening Beauregard and Vernon parishes.
“We’ve got 70 heads of cattle, where do you want to put them?” Little, a 24-year-old college student from DeRidder asks her best friend and fellow volunteer, Marley Hazlett.