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Blaze destroys vacant St. George Island trailer
No one was injured as the result of morning fire on St. George Island destroyed a vacant camper trailer,
John Alonzo, the assistant chief of the St. George Island Volunteer Fire Department, said that after the call came in at 11:42 a.m., 10 firefighters, three of the department’s trucks and its emergency medical service vehicle arrived at the site, at the intersection of Randolph Street and Palmer Street, to find the trailer fully engulfed in flames.
Alonzo said no one was in the camper at the time of the blaze, and the owner was out of town.
He said the fire department completed putting out the blaze at about 1 p.m.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.