The building is less than a block from the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and is connected to a downtown furniture store.
Mobile firefighters arrive to the scene of a blaze in the 400 block of Dauphin Street around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. .The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department is crediting a “quick response and fast action” by firefighters Thursday from preventing a blaze from engulfing an entire downtown city block.
The agency, in a Facebook post Friday, reported that the response to the blaze to an abandoned building in the 400 block of Dauphin Street kept it from spreading to the connected buildings on Dauphin Street.According to the agency, the first units on scene reported heavy fire and smoke coming from an abandoned, two-story brick building that is within a block-long series of buildings on Dauphin, between Franklin and Hamilton streets.
The building is less than one block from the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, and is connected to a longtime downtown furniture store.Photo shared to me from downtown Mobile. A 4-alarm fire to an abandoned building near the Cathedral on Dauphin. Fire is now under control.
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