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2009 In Pictures: January, February

December 28, 2009

All week, we’ll take a look back at 2009 through some of the thousands of photos we ran here on NorthEscambia.com. Today, we are featuring some of the best and most interesting photos from January and February.

This amazing photograph shows the moment Northview softball player Amber McMillan’s leg was broken in tournament game against Enterprise High School in Dothan, Alabama.

The driver of this pickup continued into the Piggly Wiggly parking lot in Davisville after rear-ending another pickup on Highway 97. The pickup stopped inside the buggy corral.

Fire destroyed a compact track loader in Davisville.

Several large control burns around the North Escambia area darkened the sun.

A driver plowed through a Walnut Hill cemetery after trying to miss a deer on Highway 97.

A fiery crash in Flomaton claimed the lives of two men in Flomaton, and three others were critically injured. Flomaton Police Dispatcher Donna Filmore was credited with saving the lives of those that survived by pulling them from the burning wreckage at Highway 113 and Highway 31.

Firefighters work outside of a grain silo in Walnut Hill where a man was trapped for nearly three hours. The man was rescued uninjured by an Esambia Fire Rescue Special Operations team and area firefighters.

Jared Jeter poses for a glamour shot photo at Byrneville Elementary as admiring fans look on. The photos were part of a Hollywood reading night at the school.

Emergency workers use the Jaws of Life to free the driver of this car on Highway 29 south of Molino. The AIRHeart One helicopter can be seen in the background waiting to transport the patient.

A firefighter from the Walnut Hill station of Escambia Fire-Rescue works to contain a brush fire on Arthur Brown Road just west of Pine Forest Road.