Raw video from another second alarm in Prince George's County. A newsworthy two days for PGFD.
Scroll to the 1:00 mark for the start of this raw video.
Click here for slideshow from Beltsville fire
Just before 2:00 this afternoon Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department crews responded to Precision Cycle Works in Beltsville. According to PGFD Chief Spokesman Mark Brady, the first firefighters on the scene in the 11300 block of Old Baltimore Pike encountered heavy smoke conditions. Brady wrote in a press release there was “stored ammunition going off and automotive oils and chemicals exploding”. Brady said despite several attempts, conditions never allowed for an interior attack.
Read the smoke: Photo above and below from Beltsville fire by Billy McNeel.
For the second time in about 12 hours a second-alarm was sounded in the county. Master streams were used in an effort to keep the fire from spreading to adjoining warehouses.
The earlier second-alarm was overnight on Jacobs Drive where fire damaged a townhouse complex. Click here for the raw video and details on that fire.
Other firefighters in the county were busy with a serious car crash around 10:00 this morning on Central Avenue at Watkins Park Drive in Largo. According to Brady, ” The collision was so violent that one car was cut in half with the rear end of the vehicle coming to rest 30 yards away from the point of impact. The adult female driver of this vehicle was ejected and sustained critical, life threatening, injuries.”
The second vehicle wound up about 75 yards away and landed on its roof. An adult female driver with serious injuries had to be extricated from that vehicle.
A day earlier PGFD made the news when a firefighter from Kentland VFD revived a choking infant as the crew returned from a large brush fire. Click here to watch that story.
