Fire Burning Out Of Control In Bayou La Batre

Alabama Bayou La Batre  BREAKING NEWS The City of Bayou la Batre is evacuating people who live on Downey Street and in the Bayou Bend Apartments.
by Jamie Burch
Published: Tue, June 23, 2009 - 5:19 pm CST Last Updated: Tue, June 23, 2009 - 9:14 pm CST
BREAKING NEWS

What started as a control burn in Bayou La Batre is now burning out of control.

Mayor Stan Wright says firefighters are calling for help from neighboring agencies. The city is evacuating people who live on Downey Street and in the Bayou Bend Apartment complex (8730 University Road).

The city is opening up the Community Center on Padgett Switch Road for evacuees. The American Red Cross will be there to help out.

A company called Cahaba Forestry started the control burn this morning near Henderson Camp Road. But things have taken a turn late this evening.

News 5 has a crew on the scene and will have more information as soon as it becomes available.

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Can we do some controlled burns around some of the junk properties? smile

Hope no lives or property(homes) are lost….

I’m with everybody else here what were they thinking in this weather and as dry as it has been starting a fire. Controlled is a joke from the start. Guess it all goes to show that you can’t fix stupid !!!!!!!!

This Company must have a very hard time hiring people with common sense, everything bone dry, high temps that cause high thermal updraft, fire, lack of proper respect for community and their propery, etc., etc.

This is definitely a “cause and effect” relationship.  I’m waiting to find out how big this “controlled” burn was when they set it ablaze, and whether or not they had supervision from the fire dept if it was a large burn.

Either way, I don’t see these guys getting anymore permits to burn.  By the time this is over with, they’ll be lucky if they’re allowed to light a cigarette.

Makes perfect sense to have a control burn in 100 degree weather and the ground dry as a bone.

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