Early video from Baltimore County 2-alarm fire at a large vacant hospital building
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Above is Part 1, and below is Part 2 of Sunday’s fire on the grounds of Rosewood Center in Owings Mills, Maryland. The state-run residential facility for people with severe developmental disabilities once had a population of 3700. It is now down to 90 or so.
Michael “Firepix1075” Schwartzberg shot these videos. Below is the account accompanying Michael’s pictures on the Pikesville VFC website:
Around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8, Baltimore County 911 dispatchers began receiving multiple phone calls reporting a building fire in the area of Jensen Lane and Axis Court on the property of the Rosewood State Hospital. PVFC Squad 322 was among the units dispatched on the call, Fire Box 31-5. Baltimore County Fire Department Engine 19 (Garrison career) arrived to find heavy fire and smoke showing from a large three-story vacant building on the Rosewood complex and requested a Working Fire Dispatch. Firefighters initially attempted to attack the fire with handlines and ladder pipes and prevent its spread to an adjacent building and other exposures, but command soon ordered defensive operations as the building was vacant and unsafe to enter. Fire extended into the second building and a second alarm was struck, bringing PVFC Engine 321 and additional units to the scene. Flying embers apparently ignited a third building several hundred feet away but quick work by firefighters prevented a significant fire in that exposure.
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