On the morning of October 31, 2025, a fast-moving fire began in a long-vacant commercial building on Cobb Lane in Birmingham’s Five Points South and tore through an entire block, destroying multiple historic structures and leaving nearly two dozen people displaced.
The blaze started in an unpowered, neglected wood-frame historic house and, fanned by early-morning winds, spread to adjacent brick apartment and condo buildings.
This fire turned a single property vacancy into a neighborhood catastrophe…