On Friday we posted three video clips of the early stages of a two-alarm fire in a large house at 1337 Girard Street in Northwest Washington, DC. The home was owned by activists Dorothy Brizill and Gary Imhoff. For some reason the video was taken down a few hours later. The videos from jroweddc was re-posted to YouTube combined in one clip and some of the sound apparently edited.
Someone has also posted the original Part 2 and Part 3 videos without editing.
Note: As a reporter I had many conversations with Dorothy Brizill and was the recipient of a lot of good information that she uncovered about the DC government, including its fire department. My thoughts are with Dorothy and her husband Gary Imhoff through this difficult time.
On this page are three video clips of the early stages of the fire at 1337 Girard Street in Northwest Washington, DC posted to YouTube by jrowedc.
The fire was first reported about 4:45 p.m. Over 80 firefighters, two engines and one truck were dispatched to combat the two-alarm blaze, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Only one injury has been reported—a firefighter who suffered from smoke inhalation.
Though we’re still awaiting details on the cause of the fire, the house has been a target of neighborhood curiosity and complaints. The house—built in 1870—came under the watchful eye of the D.C. Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings in 2007, according to a 2008 City Paper article. In 2002, the structure was put on the list of vacant and abandoned properties. There’s nothing yet indicating that today’s fire and any past problems are related.
Brizill and Imhoff, under the name D.C. Watch, have been deeply engaged as local government watchdogs for more than two decades. Notably, Brizill in 2002 raised questions about ballot petitions submitted by former Mayor Anthony A. Williams, which led the Board of Elections and Ethics to strike his name from the Democratic primary ballot. Williams ended up winning as a write-in candidate. More recently, Brizill raised concerns about the voting record of a top aide to Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), leading to her resignation.
Their home, built in 1870, has garnered the attention of city authorities in the past decade for its sometimes dilapidated condition.
Of the three injured firefighters, two were from Franklin and one was from Ogdensburg. Franklin volunteer firefighters Steven Knebl III and Donna Spoll were injured during the fire.
Knebl suffered minor burns to his face while responding to the blaze. He was treated at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston and released Friday.
Spoll suffered a bruised collar bone and was transported to Newton Medical Center. She was treated and released on Friday as well. The Ogdensburg firefighter suffered chest pains while at the scene and was later released.
The video above is a series of still pictures provided to STATter911.com of the fire inside Tyler Perry Studios on Tuesday evening. Atlanta Fire Rescue sounded four alarms to handle the blaze.
AP:
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that ripped through a simulated streetscape at Tyler Perry’s Atlanta studios.
The fire sent flames soaring about six stories high into the night sky. Officials say no one was hurt from the blaze that began shortly before 9 p.m.
An Atlanta fire captain says the fire never reached inside the building because of its concrete masonry behind the facade but there is some water damage.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the four-alarm fire. Perry was at the complex last night and spoke with the city fire chief.
The complex includes a 200,000-square-foot studio, five sound stages and a 400-seat theater in southwest Atlanta.
Pop star Cee Lo performed at a fundraiser for President Obama at the studios in March.
Back in December, FireTruckBlog.com first told us of the story of Kyle McGetrick who had battled cancer most of his young life. Being told that the end was near, firefighters at Barnegat Fire Company #1 where Kyle’s father Gene was a member, thought they would do a small parade in front of the McGetrick home. It turned into a very large parade and the FireTruckBlog.com story brought a virtual parade of firefighters from around the world in what may be the most popular fire service web story ever. Firefighters sent hundreds of messages and patches to Kyle.
Kyle bravely held on for more than five months. He passed away yesterday. His father Gene left this message on the Courage for Kyle Facebook page:
Today one of the most precious gifts in my life left to a place where there are no more doctors, treatments, pain and sorrow. For today our family let Kyle jump on his own fire truck to heaven. He taught me as a father the true meaning of love, courage and strength. Kyle fought so hard for the last 7 years with fearless strength and valor that can not be measured or imagined. He fought and faced the enemy o cancer till the very end. Rest now forever my son and feel no more pain. Your will to continue the fight and help other kids will go on by those you touched. I will see you every night in my dreams. Thank you to everyone through the years who have supported Kyle. His mission will continue to help other kids of Barnegat. We love you all. Kyle will always be my little fireman.
FireDispatch.com has posted a little more than four minutes of early radio traffic from Monday’s fire at the Stag Hotel in Watsonville, Califronia that left 17 people injured. There is above for the audio and some new video shot at ground level during the early stages of the fire. Also above is a link to TV coverage that includes some of the triage and treatment of victims from the fire.
Atlanta fire officials said they received the 911 call about the fire at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Russell Evans lives across the street from TP Studios. Evans said he heard the fire before he saw it.
“I started filming the fire and the explosion. I though the tower where senior citizens live at was on fire. I found out it was Tyler Perry Studio,” said Evans.
Atlanta fire officials initially said multiple buildings were engulfed in flames when they arrived.
AP:
Atlanta fire officials say they have put out a 4-alarm blaze at Tyler Perry Studios that damaged a building at the complex.
Atlanta Fire Department spokesman Capt. Jolyon Bundrige says there were no reports of injuries from the fire that started before 9 p.m. Tuesday. Officials said in a news release it was extinguished about an hour later.
He says the cause of the fire and the amount of damage to the complex was not immediately known
A spokesman for Tyler Perry did not immediately comment Tuesday evening. The studio’s website says the complex includes a 200,000-square-foot studio, five sound stages and a 400-seat theater in southwest Atlanta.
In March, pop star Cee Lo performed for donors at a fundraiser for President Barack Obama at the studios.
An off-duty police officer in a Corvette. A volunteer firefighter on his way home from hazmat training in what apparently is his POV with lights & radios. What happened between the two around 10:00 Friday night on a Bauxite, Arkansas road appears to be a he said – he said. The only other witness may be a female the firefighters says was in the cop’s car. The confrontation ended with Rockport Firefighter Westley Steinert arrested.
While the officer told KATV-TV he couldn’t comment, his boss Police Chief Ron Parsons did. Parsons believes Steinert could have killed someone, claiming the firefighter was driving 90 miles-per-hour.
“Very unprofessional, very unprofessional.” Westley Steinert says for about 3-miles he was followed by a driver in a Corvette riding his bumper, at times feeling chased. When the driver began flashing his high beams, Westley gave in. He says, “As a first responder I thought maybe they’re trying to get my attention for a more important reason.”
That’s when he says he pulled over and flashed his light rack, to acknowledge the driver of the Corvette.
Both men got out of their cars. Neither showed credentials. “Before I could even say hey, what’s up? What do you need? He screamed at me, you’re going to jail, I’m an off duty police officer.”
He continues, “He indicated I was impersonating a police officer because I flashed my rear deck lights at him.”
This is as dramatic a video as we’ve seen in some time. It is best viewed in full screen and at the 480p quality (the star at the bottom right group of controls).
The fire broke out around 5:45 PM at the Stag Hotel in Watsonville, California. The hotel is at 117 West Beach Street. The injuries, according to news reports, include burns, smoke inhalation and fractures.
In the video it appears police and civilians are making some of the initial rescues using a ladder on Side A. Firefighters arrive, stretch a line and assist with getting others out. It appears that a police officer picks up the first line hitting the fire on the ground floor. Others are brought down a ladder on Side D.
The Stag Hotel is described as transitional housing for those receiving substance abuse treatment and those leaving incarceration.
Three victims of the fire were air lifted out of the area, one for a broken leg from jumping out a window, and the other two for major burns.
“The first guy got burned pretty bad. They took him away first because his hide was falling off. His shirt was smoking,” said Russell Leckbee, a resident in room 37 of the hotel.
Leckbee had been dragged out of a window by two police officers.
Firefighters from the station a block away on Second Street responded quickly, Rickman said. Fire Chief Mark Bisbee said they immediately went to work rescuing residents and doused the flames in 8-10 minutes.
Rickman said the hotel has 50 rooms – three apartments in two buildings. He said about 45 men lived there. The fire was in the larger front building.
The building, constructed in 1927, had no sprinklers. The residents are a mix, some disabled, some struggling with substance abuse or in recovery, some on parole. All are men with little income.
Many bystanders helped police and firefighters get people out of the burning building or helped with ladders and hoses.
One man reportedly jumped from the second-story window to avoid the smoke and fire. Other residents said they considered jumping from the second story.
“I stuck my head out the bathroom window,” said Rick Cresswell, whose face was blackened from the smoke. “I thought about jumping.”
If you haven’t seen some of the videos from the house fire at the annual street festival in Athens, Ohio called Palmer Fest, please take a moment to check them out.
The street party in the Ohio University neighborhood was shut down Saturday evening because of the fire. The fire has been ruled arson. Scores of people were arrested as confrontations occurred between police and those attending the festival.
In the video above you will see police officers approaching Side C of the home at 11 Palmer Street as the basement burns. The videos below show the smoke conditions on Side A before firefighters arrived, a supply line dropped on Palmer Street parting the crowd, a line going through the Side C basement door, suppression efforts through a window on the second floor and a soon to be classic interview with a young woman who says she was in the house when the fire started.
The narration on some of the videos may also become classics, including this line from the video taken inside a neighboring house: “Who farted?”
Video above includes the pre-arrival view from Side A & crowd control efforts.
A house fire in the middle of Palmer Fest in Athens has been ruled arson and officials are offering a reward for information in the case.
The house fire occurred at 11 Palmer Street at about 7 p.m. Saturday, in the heart of the area where students and others hold Palmer Fest, a gathering of house parties and music.
Video above shows the supply line being dropped down Palmer Street.
The fire, reported shortly after 7 p.m. at 11 Palmer St., prompted Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl to declare Palmer and the immediate surrounding neighborhood as a riot area at 7:35 p.m., allowing police to clear the neighborhood of partiers soon after.
The house was occupied at the time of the fire, with one unidentified partier caught on video talking about noticing smoke coming from the basement and taking shots of liquor in honor of the fire before evacuating the premises.
At 1:06 in the video above a line is stretched into the basement door on Side C.
According to the police report, party goers began throwing bottles at emergency responders and inhibiting police officers from clearing the scene of the fire. Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl declared Palmer Street a riot area at 7:35 p.m. after the crowd resisted police force.
Officers then went house to house, shutting down the fest. The area was cleared by 8:20 p.m.
The vantage point from a neighboring home is seen in the video above. It shows the line going into the second floor window & same great narration from the residents.
At about 8:15 p.m. Saturday night a car, a Lexus headed northbound on 148th Avenue NE in Redmond swerved off the road and crashed into a home on the corner of NE 61st Way, hitting a natural gas line in the process and igniting a fire, according to Jim Bove spokesman for the Redmond Police department.
The home was engulfed by the time the Redmond Fire Department responded but the blaze was quickly extinguished.
Which came first the climb to the top of the pole or the bag? No one seems to know for sure just how a cat ended up on the top of a pole in St. Petersburg, Florida on Tuesday with a Doritos bag on its head. Lt. Ron Kidwell of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue & Station 1 and a newly hired firefighter, Kelly Blake, dealt more with how to get it down rather than worrying how it got there.
A fire in a three family home yesterday morning on Park Avenue in Enfield, Connecticut. One firefighter suffered a minor hand injury.
According to the description with the video by drummer112093 at YouTube, the fire was handled by the Thompsonville FD with mutual aid from Enfield, North Thompsonville, Shaker Pines, and Hazardville.
Judge Garrett Page in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania wasn’t happy that 55-year-old Donald Pierce of Philadelphia didn’t think the barricades blocking a flooded road in the Willow Grove area during Tropical Storm Lee weren’t for him. After Pierce drove around that silly obstruction in the road he soon needed help. Of course it was up to firefighters to save his butt. Which they did.
But a police officer who said he saw Pierce drive around the barriers in his red minivan charged the man with three counts of recklessly endangering others and reckless driving. The three counts were one each for the three firefighters who risked their lives in an attempt make sure Pierce walked away from the mess he created for himself.
According to Margaret Gibbons at PhillyBurbs.com, as part of an agreement, Donald Pierce entered a guilty plea to a charge of disorderly conduct. Judge Page yesterday fined Pierce $300 and ordered him to make a $1000 donation to the Willow Grove Fire Company and send letters of apology to the three firefighters who tried to reach him.
Here’s a description of the rescue from PhillyBurbs.com:
The vehicle drove into the flooded roadway and got about halfway through the swift moving flood waters when it became disabled. The force of the water pushed the van to the side of the road and up against a guardrail.
Three Willow Grove firefighters, trained in water rescues, entered the flooded roadway to rescue the driver but, after getting about halfway to the van and in water up to their hips, had to abandon that attempt because they were in danger of being swept downstream because of the swift flowing floodwaters.
A second attempt, using an Enterprise Fire Co. ladder truck, was successful.
A 2-year-old boy was thrown from a window and a woman jumped from the same second-story apartment to escape a fire Tuesday on Milwaukee’s northwest side.
Also, a 13-year-old might have jumped from a separate apartment in the building in the 5800 block of N. 87th St., according to Milwaukee Fire Department records. Firefighters said none of the injuries appears life threatening.
“We had a 25-year-old female that, in order to escape the fire, jumped from a second floor porch, a two-year-old that was thrown down to a bystander as well, and then I was told also a 13-year-old that suffered minor injuries while escaping the fire,” Milwaukee Fire Deputy Chief Randall Zingler told Newsradio 620 WTMJ’s Dan O’Donnell.
“We found three of the four units fully involved in the fire.”
News coverage can be found here and here (the second article has a good aerial shot showing which homes were lost).
The pre-arrival video above is from a kid who lives in the neighborhood in Chesapeake, Virginia where five single-family homes were destroyed by a fire on April 12. This video and Part Two, at the bottom of this page, were posted yesterday to YouTube.
The clip in the center is another neighbor’s early video shot just after the arrival of the first engine and truck in the 600 block of Sweet Leaf Place.
While I have gone through a lot, but not all of the coverage, what I couldn’t find was any real outrage that five homes were lost just like that. Except for one article, there was no mention that the construction of the houses may have been a contributing factor in such a loss.
I know it was a windy day, but I don’t recall seeing many fires like this one 35-years-ago. Now they seem to happen all of the time in similarly built neighborhoods. In fact I’ve seen quite a few all over the Commonwealth of Virginia. Funny how you don’t see this happen in the older neighborhoods that were built before lightweight construction.
But what am I saying? I am so sorry for even bringing that up. Clearly I am being unpatriotic (once again). Let me explain.
According to the people who build these homes, when you look at these videos, what you really are looking at is the cost of freedom. It’s a sacrifice these homeowners made so you and I can live free.
If the government required residential sprinklers, better home separation and fire barriers on the outside wall assemblies, that would be un-American. Remember, it should be every homeowners right to have a fire start in their home and then spread to their neighbor’s homes two and three doors away. It’s right up there with mom and apple pie.
I think the home builders lobbyists in Washington and their affiliates all over this great land should start putting up American flags in front of the shells of houses that were lost like these as a way to remind us of this important freedom they hold so dear. Don’t forget, the home builders are fighting hard for you and me and especially the nation’s firefighters.
The building lobby, after losing the battle for one of our freedoms four decades ago, when smoke alarms were added to the code said, “Never again”. And they have fought valiantly and bravely to protect us ever since. We know they know what’s best for us.
So, from the reaction to this fire, I guess, the indoctrination is complete. We now just accept disposable homes as a way of life. Silly me. What was there really to be outraged about? What was I thinking?
The thorny constitutional principle of separation of church and state is rearing its head over a 1921 World War I monument featuring a prominent Christian cross on city property. Unlike the recent prayer banner controversy in Cranston, which was sued by the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, the threat of legal action in this case is coming from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national nonprofit organization halfway across the country.
On April 13, the Madison, Wisc.-based foundation sent Mayor Leo T. Fontaine a letter calling the display of the “Latin cross” on public property “unlawful” and demanding that the situation be rectified.
The monument, a cross, at the Woonsocket Fire Department Station 2 on Cumberland Hill Road, was originally erected in 1921 to honor William Jolicoeur, a member of the American Expeditionary Forces killed in France during World War I, according to The Woonsocket Call. Later, it was rededicated in honor of three brothers killed in World War II, Alexandre, Henri and Louis Gagne.
“No secular purpose, no matter how sincere, will detract from the overall message that the Latin cross stands for Christianity,” the FFRF’s staff attorney Rebecca Markert said in the letter.
Tom Poole, a disabled veteran, is one of many in Woonsocket trying to protect a cross that stands on top of a monument located in the parking lot of the city’s fire station on Cumberland Hill Road.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the cross removed on the grounds that the monument violates the separation of church. The group also wants the Woonsocket Fire Department to remove “The Firefighter’s Prayer” and a picture of an angel from its website because it is a direct violation of the First Amendment and the Constitution.
Sorry, this video has now been removed from YouTube
This is video posted to YouTube just a short time ago from California’s Linda Fire Protection District. There is no date or location listed with the video. The description says the victim is a woman whose house firefighters have been to many times. CPR was started and she regained a pulse on the way to the hospital, where she remains in critical condition.
We first told you about this incident yesterday in Quick Takes. We were alerted to this video of a very close call for firefighters and police by a STATter911.com reader. The incident happened Sunday evening in Yorba Linda, California. The series of explosions from a manhole was caught on a police car’s dash-cam. The police arrived first and saw the smoking manhole and waited for firefighters.
When the firefighters arrived to take a close up look another explosion occurred. Captain David Wolf of the Orange County Fire Authority was thrown ten feet by the blast. Wolf and a firefighter suffered minor burns and bruises. Wolf told KCBS-TV he was very lucky. That interview is in the video below
Eventually, a fire captain and firefighter approached the manhole and looked down. The electrical vault unexpectedly exploded, literally sending the fire captain flying into the bushes.
The firefighter headed for the bushes to administer aid and the two police officers were also prepared to help when all of a sudden there was another explosion. The men rushed to get the fire captain out. As he was being dragged to safety, the fourth blast went off.
“The fire captain and the firefighter were properly equipped to approach that. We’re taught to approach carefully. They were investigating what they thought was a fire. They didn’t expect it to explode like that,” said Concepcion.
“When we got there, you could see that it was just a little bit of smoke. There wasn’t a lot of smoke coming out, so I thought, ‘OK, the incident is kind of over. It’s now just protect anyone from going into an open manhole,’” he said.
But that would prove to be the least of his worries. As Captain Wolf gazed down to see what he describes as a small electrical fire inside the vault, a rare event occurred – the vault exploded.
“I kind of tried to roll away from it. And the next thing I know is that when my firemen was kind of dragging me. I found out later it was my firemen I didn’t know, but somebody had picked me up from the back of my coat and dragged me,” he said.
This is Part 2 of the raw video from a fire that damaged four businesses early Sunday morning in the Fashion District of Los Angeles. It is from firelensman at YouTube.
The video above, from June of 2010, has almost two-years later come back to haunt New Jersey State Police. It’s proof that a very high speed caravan of luxury sports cars escorted by troopers down the Garden State Parkway last month was not an isolated incident. It also provides a crystal clear visual aid to the public for what was already considered an outrageous event.
According to The Star Ledger, the March 30, 2012 police escort and the earlier incident have now sparked two investigation and the suspension of Sgt. 1st Class Nadir Nassry, who was the assistant station commander of the Totowa substation, Trooper Joseph Ventrella and the transfer of the commander of the Totowa substation.
The paper also reports that one of the cars in the caravan was driven by former Giants running back Brandon Jacobs. Sgt. Nassry’s attorney has confirmed that Jacobs asked for the escort and that Jacobs and Nassry have known each other for a few years.
While we usually just focus on fire and EMS news, I have posted this one because of the universal messages that apply to all who serve the public (and even those who don’t).
The most recent NJ State Police sanctioned Garden State Parkway 500 was brought to light by citizens witnessing police officers doing something quite dangerous in public. Some of them, who said they feared for their lives from this reckless act, complained to police officials.
It’s just amazing to me that the troopers involved, or anyone who ordered or allowed them to escort these caravans in excess of 100 mph, were either so out of touch with reality, or so arrogant in the abuse of their power, they actually thought no one would dare to complain.
Forget for a moment what would have happened if a collision involving this high speed motorcade seriously injured or killed an innocent motorist. Couldn’t anyone see what they were doing, even without an accident occurring, had the potential to be a career-ender? But, as we all know, this complete lack of vision is not exclusive to cops.
One witness, Wayne Gantt, dubbed the escort “Death Race 2012.”
“I had the great pleasure today of nearly being killed by, not one, but two, Lamborghinis traveling in excess of 110 mph in a (New Jersey State Police) escorted ‘caravan’ of approximately 30 exotic vehicles all traveling well over 100 mph,” Gantt wrote in an e-mail complaint to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which oversees the Parkway.
Isn’t it also just pure stupidity to think, that in our digital age, no one would capture damaging evidence on video of their complete disregard for the safety of those they serve? This occurred in broad daylight on one of New Jersey’s most heavily traveled roads. What were they thinking?
Well, actually, that I’ve seen so far, no video has surfaced of the March escapade. If that’s the case it’s pretty incredible. But less than 24-hours after its original article, The Star Ledger had the June 2010 video posted to its website. It wasn’t hard to find. It had been hiding in plain site on YouTube all of this time.
It’s a good thing the head of the New Jersey State Police or New Jersey’s governor didn’t try to “spin” the press with the knee-jerk reaction that we hear so often, “This was an isolated incident”. The Internet and social media can easily have you eating your words if you try to use the “spins” of yesterday.
This absolutely mind-boggling video of two young men spotting the 2010 caravan, joining in and racing along speaks louder than any words from the witnesses of the more recent event. It has you both laughing at the men taking the video (one who thinks this is the highlight of his life) and outraged at the unnecessary danger the troopers exposed everyone to. From what I see, it elevates the story to a new level and will make it that much tougher for those who have to put the pieces back together following this self-inflicted wound.
About 150 firefighters responded to the blaze at the two-story building near Olympic Avenue and Maple Street. It took crews about an hour and 40 minutes to put out the blaze.
One firefighter suffered a cut on his arm. He was taken to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where he was treated and released. No other injuries were reported.
Fire crews responded to the fire near Maple Avenue and Olympic Boulevard at about 2 a.m., said Brian Humphrey, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman.
While battling the fire within the building, the roof began to give way, forcing firefighters outside, he said. The blaze was put out about an hour and 40 minutes later.
Commissioner Donald Austin last June when he brought up the issue of tactics for vacant structure fires, saying he wanted a clear indication of a life hazard before entering. Click here for that story.
Donald Austin Jr., the Executive Fire Commissioner of Detroit, has some novel ideas to deal with a 15 percent cut in the 2012-2013 budget for his department. Austin told Tammy Stables Battaglia at Detroit Free Press, “I’ll give him every penny I can without cutting people”. But the commissioner does expect to lose firefighters through attrition.
Austin’s focus is on the major fire problem for Detroit, vacant structures. The city lost 200,000 residents in the past decade.
• Allowing vacant homes that are more than 50% ablaze when firefighters arrive to burn to the ground, as long as no lives are in jeopardy. The approach isn’t feasible in high winds or other dangerous conditions, Austin said.
• Asking the U.S. Navy’s construction division — the Seabees — to raze 10,000 vacant and dilapidated homes.
• Creating a demolition unit in the Fire Department, much like the Tractor Company he created in Los Angeles that cut breaks around wildfires, maintained hillside fire roads and overhauled large industrial fires. Detroit’s crew would use heavy equipment to raze the remnants of newly burned buildings, he said.
Reducing the number of vacant homes and buildings, and in turn cutting the number of fires, would not only save money but improve the look of the city. Austin told the paper, “One reason people are not coming back to the city is because it looks like hell.”
Union president Dan McNamara doesn’t like the idea unless the structure is on a demolition list compiled by the city.
Last June Commissioner Austin also made headlines when he told firefighters he didn’t want them to enter vacant structures without a clear indication of a life hazard.
This news comes on the same day the documentary about the Detroit Fire Department, ”Burn”, debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival.
It has been so long since we have had video from Michael “FirePix1075″ Scwartzberg that I was certain they had banned all fires in Baltimore County, Maryland. But Michael was on the scene early Friday morning at this fire in a garden style apartment building in Reisterstown.
Above is Michael’s video and below are two more videos found on YouTube.
Baltimore County Fire Department:
An early morning fire heavily damaged an apartment unit in the Reisterstown section of Baltimore County. The fire at 3 Caraway Road was reported shortly after 2 a.m. First arriving crews had fire through the roof of the complex and they quickly called for 2nd alarm. Initially people were reported trapped in the building, but fire crews quickly performed two searches and found that all residents had self-evacuated. The fire was quickly contained to the middle of the group apartment building, although there were light smoke conditions in both 1 and 5 Caraway Road. Approximately 50 firefighters and 20 pieces of fire apparatus responded to the scene. A total of 11 individual units were damaged by the fire. Two civilian required medical attention at the scene of the fire. Both were transported to Northwest Hospital, one by county medic, and one asked to be taken by family member. There were no injuries to any firefighters. Fire Investigators were on the scene, and the fire remains under investigation at this time.
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