Mobile and Baldwin County News
Coverage of fire investigation from South Alabama News, the local news source for Mobile, Baldwin and the surrounding counties of the Alabama Gulf Coast.
A 68-year-old man has died after a house fire broke out on Donald Street in Mobile, according to Mobile Fire-Rescue. The death added another name to the toll that residential…
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews were called to the 2300 block of Dog River Drive around 2 p.m. Saturday and had the single-story house fire under control by 2:28 p.m. No one…
A lightning strike sparked a fire on Postoak Circle in Mobile County that spread from the garage through the attic, leaving the home unlivable. No one was injured.
Three separate 1996 fires destroyed a Baptist church, a Presbyterian church and an academy in Grove Hill and Jackson, but all three institutions rebuilt and endured.
Tattoos captured on security footage helped investigators identify Ronald Rex Johnson, 59, who is charged with arson in a Perdido tiny house fire.
An electrical problem destroyed a guesthouse behind a Cantonment home early Thursday, though no injuries were reported, Escambia County Fire Rescue said.
Baldwin County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested 53-year-old Ronald Rex Johnson in connection with an arson that destroyed a newly built, fully furnished home on McKinley Road in Perdido.
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews responded to heavy flames at an abandoned apartment complex in the Birdville community Friday night. No injuries were reported.
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews responded Friday night to a blaze at an abandoned two-story apartment building near Raven Drive and Cardinal Drive West, with heavy flames showing on arrival.
Mobile Fire-Rescue crews responded to a residential fire in the 100 block of Green Park Drive early Monday morning. No injuries were reported.