Photos by PGFD’s Mark Brady. Click here for more.
Additional pictures here and here.
Flames shot through the roof of an apartment building in Laurel Monday afternoon causing a part of the building’s roof to collapse. No injuries were reported, but a number of residents were displaced.
Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department officials say that they received a call around 2:50 PM for a fire on the third floor of a 3-story garden apartment complex, located in the 13000 block of Mistletoe Springs Road. When firefighters arrived, they found flames on the third floor extending though the roof.
Fire officials report the bulk of the fire was knocked down at 4:00 PM.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
PGFD has not provided a dollar estimate on the loss.
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Units in the bravo exposure saved that one from turning into a disaster!
That would be truck 14 i believe.
Those are two puuurty yellow helmets in that picture. Nice and clean
it’s Anne Arundel county firefighters….what do you expect?
truck 14 and engine 715 bravo.
truck 14 gets credit for saving the bravo exposure
right because hooks put fires out by themselves…
Hooks don’t put fires out, but, competent Truck companies that pull hose lines do. Quick thinking by Truck 14 prior to entering the exposure, prevented the loss of an additional building.
On a side note, the majority of the fire was extinguished from the exposure.
Which chief managed to loose his own bottle on the fire ground?
I will say this, I thought it was a great group effort by everyone involved. I did see Truck 14 stretching a line and I turned to the knobster and said ” Thats nice of them to do that for the engine weenies” a few minutes later the knobster yells to me ” Look 14′s up there do in it” (LOL) Then some officer turns to us, who’s face was whiter then his helmet front and says ” we heard them comming in, they were staffed 8 guys on the truck.- Yahhhhh??????? Whats the big deal – Was it our fault they were up there humping it or that they came in with 8 ????? They put forth a respectable effort as part of the team.
Everybody did a good job. The fire was way ahead of the first arriving units and it was still held to a single building. In Garden Apartment Fire’s 101, that is considered a good fire.