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Fire Burns At Atmore Sulfur Plant; Florida Residents Alerted
January 6, 2023
Firefighters are battled a fire for hours Friday at an Atmore sulfur plant.
A warehouse building at Tiger-Sul Products on Highway 31 just west of the Atmore Country Club collapsed in the fire The building is was not the main plant.
No railroad tanker cars were involved in the blaze, but reports from the scene were that sulfur was burning and hot sulfur was flowing downhill away from the fire.
There were no injuries reported.
Fire stations from the Atmore area responded, including Poarch Creek and Nokomis.
Escambia County (FL) Fire Rescue responded with a hazardous materials team, and Escambia County, Florida, residents within five miles of the state line just south of the plant received an emergency alert via their cell phones about the fire. Florida residents were not advised to shelter in place at this time. Air monitoring equipment from Escambia County, Florida, was also used, and an ECFR hazardous materials response team staged at the Piggly Wiggly on Highway 97 in Davisville.
Highway 31 in Atmore has since reopened.
NorthEcambia.com exclusive photos, click to enlarge.
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8 Responses to “Fire Burns At Atmore Sulfur Plant; Florida Residents Alerted”
ADEM would seem to have the responsibility to test the water; not the city of Atmore although it would be good if they tested it too.
this place is always catching fire. somebody needs to check this place out.
One way to register to receive alerts is to go to site floridadisaster.org… In the upper right corner, click or touch MENU with the 3 bars on the top. It will bring you to the Alert Florida Statewide Notification Initiative. In the section of the middle start typing your County/City. For me, all I did was typed “Esc”, then a list came up with my location. Century was the 1st on the list.. Hope this helps.
@CW nor did we receive an alert! We live less than a mile east of Tiger Sulfur. This is the 2nd time it’s burnt in the last 6 years. Last time it killed trees around the plant and Golf Course. This time it probably made it to the creek just east of it. Story states that the liquid was running down the hill. Sure Hope Florida HazMat will test the water of the creek since it flows over into Florida. Don’t bet on Atmore testing it.
CW, I was thinking the same thing. I’m about 3 miles from there. Crazy. And my daughter lives in FL. Just down the road. She didn’t receive any alerts either.
This FL resident nor his wife got an alert on our cell phone either. How can we get on the emergency alert system for our area?
This FL resident 1 mile from state line did not receive any alert.
Funny how Florida residents received an alert yet I live one mile away (in AL) and I received nothing.