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3:15 PM: Structure fire reported at Cherokee + Main

3:15 PM: Structure fire reported at Cherokee + Main

Dothan Fire responded to a report of a structure fire at Cherokee + Main and began ventilating the building.

Cherokee Avenue beside the business was briefly blocked.

Initial reports indicated smoke and flames were visible, but units arriving on-scene did not see any flames.

9 A.M. UPDATE: Line of storms moves across Wiregrass; power restored

9 A.M. UPDATE: Line of storms moves across Wiregrass; power restored

UPDATE: Power has been restored.

ORIGINAL: A line of storms moved through the Wiregrass Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, putting the region under a severe thunderstorm warning and a tornado watch.

A wind advisory brought sustained widespread winds of 30 to 40 mph, with some areas seeing wind gusts of 50 to 80 mph.

RSN is monitoring the situation. Please pay attention to local meteorologists.

The Pea River Electric Cooperative shows thousands of outages in Dale, Geneva, Coffee, Barbour and Henry Counties.

The Alabama Power outage map shows some several hundred people out of power in New Brockton and Enterprise. Communities in Coffee County and Geneva County are affected, and some outages are beginning to appear in Henry County. UPDATE: Most of these outages are resolved.

The Wiregrass Electric Cooperative map shows over 150 outages in Coffee County, Geneva County and Houston County. UPDATE: These outages seem to be resolved.

Some 30 power outages are reported in Dothan. UPDATE: These outages seem to be resolved.

 

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