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Photo Gallery: Fire Destroys Nine Mile Apartments
June 22, 2010
One building of a Pensacola apartment complex was destroyed by fire Monday afternoon, leaving four families homeless and creating a traffic nightmare on Nine Mile Road.
The fire was reported at 3:03 p.m. at the Woodlands Apartments on Sunnehanna Boulevard near Nine Mile Road. The fire, which was contained to the single building, was reported under control at 4:35 p.m. There were no injuries reported.
Multiple fire stations from Escambia County and two units from Pace battle the blaze, including the Cantonment and Ensley stations of Escambia Fire Rescue. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the State Fire Marshal.
The American Red Cross is assisting the four families displaced by the blaze, according to Sonya Daniel, Escambia County spokesperson.
The fire created traffic delays in the area, including a complete shutdown of Nine Mile Road in both directions near Pen Air Federal Credit Union. Nine Mile reopened about 4:15.
For a photo gallery from the scene, click here.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Smith, click to enlarge.
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21 Responses to “Photo Gallery: Fire Destroys Nine Mile Apartments”
REGARDING:
“on a slow day, about 50,000 people read NorthEscambia.com ”
Impressive
So if the Atmore guys who want more Lower Alabama coverage cloned you. . . ?
Thanks William I can tell you that the news we have here in atmore is horrible they always run the same stories. Its always the same people and like you said they do not run half of the stories that are actually happening. Atmore advance and atmore news is just a bland piece of paper with alot of jibberish written on it. It would be nice if we could actually get some decent news reported for our area. Im doing my best to get thing started to where I can find out the news that atmore doesnt want to report or want you to know about. I feel compelled to let the people know the truth about what is going on around us.
Sounds like Alabama needs to get a better news reporter for their area. Good job William, we appreciate you.
I live less than a mile north of 9 mile, but I read here first thing every morning and usually check at least once in the evening for updates. Usually I read the PNJ site at lunch to see if they have caught up to William yet.
JJ said “Besides, I think William has a money-back guarantee. If you don’t think you’ve gotten your money-worth of news from this site, he’ll most likely give you back however much you paid to read……… oh….. wait……”
Awesome. Besides that, probably one of Williams dozens of reporters responded to the other scene, right?
Thanks for a great informative site that is a resource for ALL of Escambia County
Thanks William for ALL the coverage of news in North Escambia. No better local news source than this site.
William, Keep up the good work! Just ignore the bad comments on your site. This is the best source of news we have so include the nine mile road area and anywhere else you feel the north end might want to hear about. Forget the news journal, it is no good at all for local news. THANKS FOR ALL YOUR INFO!
I think you do an Awesome job! Very informative site that I access just about everyday.
I’ve known some people in my life that if you gave them a free twenty dollar bill they’d be mad that it wasnt two tens. Good job reporting the news william.
> the people in Escambia County, ALABAMA, are a lot closer than the people in PENSACOLA. Yet, we seldom see a lot of pertinent news that goes on around here. I just don’t see how you can report on a wreck on Old Atmore Road, and not report on a DUI wreck that happened on 21 near I-65 that happened within the same day or so.
Again I do appreciate our Escambia, Ala. readers. But we cover North Escambia, Florida, and include some of the bigger stories from Escambia, Ala. and Santa Rosa counties because we have thousands of readers there.
I don’t’ know what stories that you consider “Pensacola” stories, but we also offer coverage of stories of county-wide interest in Escambia County, Fla. because we cover the north half of the county. We don’t cover the Pensacola City Council, for instance, because it’s Pensacola, not Escambia County. North Escambia is in Escambia County, Fla., so the county commission, etc. is of interest to many.
Most people in North Escambia travel to Pensacola several times per month, or work there. So sometimes we do stories of interest to those people.
As for the Old Atmore Road wreck, that involved a fatality and it was less than 2/10 of a mile north of the Florida line. (And, at the time I started driving to it at 3 a.m., it was reported to 911 as being in Florida.)
I-65 and Highway 21 is *not* in our coverage area. If it had involved a fatality, we probably would have ran it, but otherwise not.
Understand that on a slow day, about 50,000 people read NorthEscambia.com a total of about 8 million times per month. Most are in North Escambia and the rest of Escambia County, Fla. That’s our coverage area, and that’s what we cover most.
It might not be the coverage that you as an Atmore? resident might want on NorthEscambia.com, but it’s a formula that works well. We are one of the most widely read websites on the Gulf Coast.
(But again, we love all of you in the other areas that read NorthEscambia.com. I sometimes wish we could cover you more!)
And we always welcome your comments and suggestions.
First of all, I know it was at least a week before her death was announced on here, because I watched for it. Now, as far as the news itself, as I said before, the people in Escambia County, ALABAMA, are a lot closer than the people in PENSACOLA. Yet, we seldom see a lot of pertinent news that goes on around here. I just don’t see how you can report on a wreck on Old Atmore Road, and not report on a DUI wreck that happened on 21 near I-65 that happened within the same day or so.
Redtail Hawk,
I’m absolutely amazed at the amount of articles and news William does put out here. Just the sheer typing of all these articles would take forever, not even counting traveling to the site of a lot of the incidents, taking, editing and posting all the pictures, composing and proofing the articles, posting them to the site with headlines, etc.
Besides, I think William has a money-back guarantee. If you don’t think you’ve gotten your money-worth of news from this site, he’ll most likely give you back however much you paid to read……… oh….. wait……
Thanks, William, for doing a GREAT job….
> great job William, a true professional as always!
I did not take the pictures — they were submitted by Kristi Smith of Cantonment. She gets the kudos!
great job William, a true professional as always!
I live in West Pensacola and I read this site every morning. I find more information on this site than the P-cola News Journal. Thanks William and I love your site!
Awesome pictures, thank you Kristi and William for being on the scene of the happenings in North Escambia,
I absolutely appreciate William. I think that you do a wonderful job getting the news out to people who live in North Escambia. I was stuck in this traffic for almost an hour after being detoured trying to get back home in Cantonment and I work at Baptist Medical Park. The escambia county sheriffs department could not accomodate the amount of traffic as fast as it was building up. Traffic on both sides were completely closed off in both directions, all being detoured. Kudos to William, keep up the excellent work. You are appreciated.
You guys do a great job at north escambia, keep up the good work. If they don’t like what they are getting, they do not have to log on.
I dont believe your right about it being a week when her accident was reported on here Redtail Hawk.
How dare somebody complain about William!!! (snort,snarl,grumble) He’s a GREAT news source and most of us LOVE him!!!
To REDTAIL HAWK –
It is NorthEscambia.com — and that’s why we covered the fire. It shut down Nine Mile Road and created a traffic mess elsewhere where hundreds of North Escambia residents drive in the afternoon on their way home. So it was important to lots of North Escambia residents.
Many of the men and women fighting the fire were North Escambia residents (departments as far north as Molino responded or were shuffled elsewhere), so also very important to North Escambia residents.
We cover the north half of Escambia County, Florida. That’s our coverage area. Always has been. That said, we do appreciate our readers in Escambia County, Ala. and north Santa Rosa County. And we do some of the more major stories from there.
I can’t remember ever covering a story from Escambia, Alabama, a “week or two after it happened” as you said. You mentioned a death — we are at the mercy of the funeral home when we publish those. They are usually published within a few hours of the funeral home’s release to us.
And we are always open to suggestions. If you have something you would like us to cover, please send us an email at news@northescambia.com
I thought this was supposed to be “NORTH” Escambia.com. I see more and more news from Pensacola. Then again, we are all just a mile or two over the state line, a lot closer than Pensacola, and yet we hardly get any news published. If it is published, it is a week or two after it has happened. It was almost a week after Dee Gee White died before she was ever even mentioned on here. It just seems since we are a lot closer than Pensacola, we would get news published a little quicker, or even at all.