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Church Kitchen Trailer Catches Fire + Mobile 9/11 Memorial

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Good morning, Mobile! Here's everything you need to know to get this Friday started off right. Here are the most important things going on around town today.

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 84 Low: 69.

Here are the top stories today in Mobile:

  1. Mobile church, Oak Park Church's kitchen trailer caught fire in Louisiana while assisting victims of Hurricane Ida. The trailer caught fire in Terrytown, LA on Wednesday night after providing almost 10,000 meals in three days. No one from the Oak Park Church team was on-site or injured. (NBC 15 WPMI)
  2. Mobile first responders hosted a 9/11 remembrance ceremony to honor and pay tribute to those who gave their all nearly 20 years ago. The ceremony, hosted by Mobile Memorial Gardens, also honored local fallen firefighters. Charles Joshua Hines, who passed away two months ago, was one of the Mobile fallen fighters honored. (WKRG News 5)
  3. Two American Legion Posts in Mobile have been burglarized within the last two months. (NBC 15 WPMI)
  4. There's hope for Alabama hospitals as Mobile County, a COVID hotspot a month ago, has seen a 34 percent drop in patients. (AL.com)
  5. Nija Hill, the mother of a teenage boy shot left for dead in Mobile street says of her son, "16 years wasn't long enough." (WKRG News 5)

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