Tangipahoa Parish, LA (CBS/WWL) -- Mississippi Emergency Management has notified GOHSEP and Tangipahoa Parish Government that the dam at Lake Tangipahoa at Percy Quinn State Park is failing. Tangipahoa Parish President Gordon Burgess is calling for a mandatory evacuation of all areas along the Tangipahoa River.

As WWL's Ashley Rodrigue reports, residents are loading up as much as they can as they try to get out before the dam breaks and the water rushes in.

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