Fire Simultaneously Rips Through Two Atmore Homes Miles Apart

January 30, 2019

Firefighters battled two simultaneous structures fires about 2.5 miles apart before sunrise Wednesday morning.

A fire about 6:10 a.m. left four people without a home in the 100 block of Martin Luther King Avenue, near the Houston Avery Park.

Fire was rolling from the attic and windows of the brick home when firefighters arrived on scene. Atmore Fire Chief Ronald Peebles said it appeared the fire started with a space heater in a bedroom. The home was heavily damaged.

A fire about 5:45 a.m. gutted a mobile home on South Road at Cross Road, just south of Highway 31 and Industrial Drive.

The single-wide trailer had no electricity and was “packed with junk,” Peebles said, greatly hampering the firefighting effort. No one was known to be living in the trailer.

“There was so much junk we could not access a back bedroom and had to cut through an outside wall to get to it,” the fire chief said. He expected it would take hours to remove the junk from the trailer to fully extinguish the smoldering fire and being their investigation into the cause.

Peebles said it was highly unusual to have two involved structure fires in Atmore at the same time.

“It was kind of odd for that to happen,” he said. “I’m lucky I’ve got mutual aid with Walnut Hill and Poarch. We probably had 20-25 firefighters at the two fires because of their help.”

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The Atmore Fire Department, Poarch Fire Department, Walnut Hill Station of Escambia Fire Rescue and the Atmore Police Department were among the responding agencies.

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One Response to “Fire Simultaneously Rips Through Two Atmore Homes Miles Apart”

  1. Jacob Tanner Gideons on January 30th, 2019 11:30 am

    Ill keep these family’s in my prayers

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