Mobile Fire-Rescue Department was dispatched at about 5:09 p.m. for a report of a residential fire in the 2500 block of Bataan Avenue in Mobile, Alabama, Monday, January 20, 2025.
Units arrived to find smoke and heavy flames visible from the side of a one-story wood frame residence.
Crews entered and performed primary and secondary searches and extinguished the fire. When a section of floor collapsed, a firefighter was injured. He was transported to a hospital for evaluation and was released.
Crews put out remaining hotspots. The fire was determined to be accidental in nature.
Districts 3 and 1, Engines 14, 18, 21, and 3, Rescues 12 and 14, Truck 17, Car 80, and Rehab 1 responded.
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