A body was found Friday morning when New Orleans firefighters were called out to a trash fire at Interstate 10 and South Carrollton Avenue.Officials said the incident happened just after 8:30 a.m. after the New Orleans Fire Department received word of the trash fire at the Carrollton Avenue offramp.Firefighters found the trash fire and under the enclosed portion of the on-ramp. It was when they had extinguished the fire and were searching for hot spots that the body was found, officials said.Investigators said the badly decomposed body was not in an area near the fire and is not fire-related. The body has been sent to the coroner's office for identification.NOFD said cadaver dogs were sent to the scene to investigate. Additional information has not been released.

A body was found Friday morning when New Orleans firefighters were called out to a trash fire at Interstate 10 and South Carrollton Avenue.

Officials said the incident happened just after 8:30 a.m. after the New Orleans Fire Department received word of the trash fire at the Carrollton Avenue offramp.


Firefighters found the trash fire and under the enclosed portion of the on-ramp. It was when they had extinguished the fire and were searching for hot spots that the body was found, officials said.

Investigators said the badly decomposed body was not in an area near the fire and is not fire-related. The body has been sent to the coroner's office for identification.

NOFD said cadaver dogs were sent to the scene to investigate. Additional information has not been released.