Hometown Heroes have been in Westlake since day after Laura Syncbak: KPLC 7 News at Six - April 14, 2021 - part II By John Bridges | April 15, 2021 at 8:00 AM CDT - Updated April 15 at 8:00 AM LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A team of disaster volunteers who arrived in Southwest Louisiana a day after Hurricane Laura, will wrap up their work next week. Christian Aid Ministries has been cleaning up Westlake for the last 7 and a half months. Westlake Mayor Bob Hardey said they were a God-send. “In two days, with their help, we were driving every road in Westlake,” recalled Hardey. “Two days after the hurricane.”