Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of emergency response from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
PASCAGOULA, Miss. — The Coast Guard rescued a woman Monday night after her sailing vessel ran aground on Petit Bois Island near Pascagoula. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received…
CITRONELLE, Ala. — Citronelle Fire Rescue crews responded around 1:30 a.m. Saturday to a fire at a building next to a home on Bud Odom Road, and everyone made it…
HOLT, Fla. — A woman escaped her home without injury late Tuesday night before it burned to the ground in Holt, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The resident’s…
A crash on eastbound Interstate 10 at the on-ramp to northbound Interstate 65 brought afternoon traffic in Mobile to a crawl, with backups stretching all the way to Tillman’s Corner…
PENSACOLA, Fla. — An Escambia County Area Transit bus operator was taken to a local hospital Monday afternoon after extinguishing an electrical fire that broke out at the back of…
THOMASVILLE, Ala. — Cleanup crews in Thomasville are still working to clear the debris left behind by Hurricane Zeta, and Mayor Sheldon Day says it will be impossible to remove…
A woods fire burning off Highway 225 near Spanish Fort Estates forced crews to reduce the highway to one lane Wednesday, with officers escorting traffic past the scene.
A fire broke out at the Oaktree Apartments on Old Pascagoula Road in Mobile on Tuesday night, November 3, sending heavy smoke into the air. Mobile Fire-Rescue responded to the…
Baldwin County Public Schools ran all 310 bus routes ahead of Wednesday's return to class, clearing storm debris and setting up designated stops in hard-hit areas like Spanish Fort's Saluda…
MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile Fire-Rescue pulled a woman from her home during one of the most frightening nights of Hurricane Sally, after a tree crashed through her house while she…