Montgomery firefighters douse single-room blaze at State House Inn

The Montgomery Fire Department on Monday afternoon quickly extinguished a fire at the State House Inn in downtown Montgomery.
No one was injured in the fire, which was confined to the room where it started, said Lt. Kenny Jones, a fire department spokesman.
The department received the call at 1:33 p.m., and 12 units and 48 personnel responded, Jones said. It was a second-alarm fire, he added.
The city is buying the Madison Avenue property where the aging hotel sits and plans to implode the building and use the empty space to attract a developer to the site.
The 69,000-square-foot building, located at 924 Madison Ave., was built in 1962. Deputy Mayor Jeff Downes said in a Montgomery Advertiser story last week that the property at one time was a Holiday Inn, and it has deteriorated over time. He said there are rooms with boarded-up windows that don't meet current building codes.
Mayor Todd Strange has said that he hopes to close the hotel by the end of the year, according to previous Advertiser reports.
? Scott Johnson

Blaze extinguished at vacant house

Montgomery firefighters responded to a three-alarm fire early Friday morning at Clay and Conecuh streets.

About 1:30 a.m., firefighters arrived to a well-involved fire, said Lt. Kenny Jones, a Montgomery Fire Department spokesman.

Firefighters brought the blaze under control and determined that the house was vacant, Jones said.

The house was not furnished, and there were signs that it possibly had been occupied by vagrants, he said.

No one was injured in the fire.

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