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Phoenix Fire Museum Rises Again

By Chris Newbold, Alabama Public Radio

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Mobile, AL – One of the last coastal Alabama attractions damaged during Hurricane Katrina has re-opened. The Phoenix Fire Museum in downtown Mobile is once again welcoming visitors more than a year and a half after the storm ripped its roof off and flooded the historic building. But like the mythical creature that is its namesake, the museum is rising from its own ashes. Mobile firefighter Kent Landsbert takes Alabama Public Radio on a tour.

OUTRO: Mobile firefighter Kent Landsberg highlighting some of the exhibits on display inside the Phoenix Fire Museum. The only museum of its kind in the southeast recently re-opened after extensive hurricane related repairs. APR's Chris Newbold and Eric Lowe produced this report.

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