Apartment Fire

An unidentified person was burned in an apartment kitchen fire in Edgewood Tuesday afternoon, according to a spokesperson for the Harford County's Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Association. At approximately 4 p.m., Harford County 911 call takers received a report of an apartment fire in the 1000 block of Magnolia Woods Lane in Edgewood, fire and ambulance association spokesperson Dave Williams said. As units from the Joppa-Magnolia, Abingdon, Bel Air Volunteer Fire companies and the Aberdeen Proving Ground (Edgewood Area)

A volunteer firefighter who joined the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company as a teenager more than a decade ago died Thursday of injuries sustained in a fire last week that also killed another man. Gene Kirchner, 25, died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, officials said. "Everybody is extremely shocked by this," said Craig Hewitt, assistant chief of the fire company. "They're missing Gene right now. He was a very key part of our fire company, and he will be greatly missed. " Kirchner was one of the first firefighters to respond to the house fire on Hanover Road early on the morning of April 24. He tried to save a man trapped inside, officials said.

Howard County fire officials say two people were injured in an apartment fire that occurred Saturday evening in the 9100 block of Gracious End Court in Columbia. Shortly before 8 p.m., Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue units responded to an automatic fire alarm, and the county 911 center also received calls about a fire and a possible burn victim. Responders found there had been a flash fire in the dining room of a third floor apartment. Officials said the fire caused a sprinkler to activate, and the blaze was extinguished.

Over two years have passed since firefighter Mark Falkenhan was killed at an apartment fire on Dowling Circle in Towson. His death resulted, in part, from a collapse of the Incident Command System (ICS), when first-arriving units were faced with heavy fire and multiple rescues. ICS is a procedural policy for ensuring that command and control mechanisms are continually utilized during mitigation efforts at every incident. "Command" is assumed by the officer of the first-arriving unit and passed to the responding chief officer upon his or her arrival.

A two-alarm fire that began in a trash compactor temporarily displaced about 20 residents of a Towson apartment building late Sunday and into Monday morning, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. The residents of the Virginia Towers complex, in the 500 block of Virginia Avenue, were evacuated from the building shortly after 11 p.m., when firefighters responded for reports of smoke in several floors of the building and located the fire in the building's compactor, the department said.

Two Baltimore firefighters and one resident were injured early Wednesday during an apartment fire in the 2800 block of Reistertown Road, according to a department spokesman. The fire was reported around 1:15 a.m. and was under control shortly before 2:00 a.m. Several people were rescued from the building. According to Chief Kevin Cartwright, a fire department spokesman, one firefighter suffered a non-life-threatening injury to his knee and a second firefighter was treated for a first-degree burn to his hand.

Firefighters from Baltimore county and city battled an early morning two-alarm blaze Saturday that left 20 people displaced and required about 80 personnel, fire officials said. The fire broke out around 6:10 a.m. on the fourth floor of a 4-story-apartment building in the 2800 block of Diamond Ridge Road in Windsor Mill, said Chief Michael Robinson, division chief for the Baltimore County Fire Department. No residents in the apartment building were injured. A Baltimore City firefighter was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center for injuries that were not life-threatening, after falling off a ladder.

Among the 63 calls for medical and fire-rescue service the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received During the period Feb. 17-23 were the following: Pleasant Valley Drive, 1300 block, 10:17 p.m. Feb. 20. Crews from the Arbutus and Woodlawn volunteer stations responded to the report that a person was having a stroke in the Westview area of Catonsville. One seriously ill person taken to a local hospital. Bloomsbury Avenue, unit block, 10:42 a.m. Feb. 20. Crews from the Arbutus, Lansdowne and Violetville volunteer stations and Catonsville, Halethorpe, Randallstown, Westview and Woodlawn career stations responded to the report of an apartment fire in Catonsville.

A large, two-alarm fire tore through an Odenton apartment building near Fort Meade on Wednesday afternoon, damaging 12 units and displacing about 30 people, according to the Anne Arundel Fire Department. The fire occurred in the same Seven Oaks complex that was damaged by another two-alarm fire in September. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remained under investigation, said Chief Michael Cox, a department spokesman. Firefighters responded about 1:11 p.m. to find fire coming from the rear of the building, burning up the complex's three stories.

BALTIMORE -- An 18-year-old woman died early today when fire broke out in the bedroom of her first-floor apartment in the 5600 block of McClean Boulevard in the city's northeast section.Reported at 1:53 a.m., the fire was confined to the bedroom at 5610 Apt. B McClean Boulevard and declared under control in less than 15 minutes, but not before it claimed the life of the woman whose identity was withheld pending notification of relatives.Firefighters found the woman lying on her bedroom floor next to a burning mattress.

Crews from the Baltimore County Fire Department responded to a reported apartment fire at 2913 Andorra Court in Parkville on March 20 at 3:55 p.m. First arriving units reported two balconies on the third floor on fire. Crews entered the structure to extinguish the fire. The fire was contained to the third floor. Primary and secondary searches for occupants were negative. The fire was contained at 4:10 p.m., according to county fire officials. No injuries were reported.  

A two-alarm fire that began in a trash compactor temporarily displaced about 20 residents of a Towson apartment building late Sunday and into Monday morning, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. The residents of the Virginia Towers complex, in the 500 block of Virginia Avenue, were evacuated from the building shortly after 11 p.m., when firefighters responded for reports of smoke in several floors of the building and located the fire in the building's compactor, the department said.

Among the 63 calls for medical and fire-rescue service the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received During the period Feb. 17-23 were the following: Pleasant Valley Drive, 1300 block, 10:17 p.m. Feb. 20. Crews from the Arbutus and Woodlawn volunteer stations responded to the report that a person was having a stroke in the Westview area of Catonsville. One seriously ill person taken to a local hospital. Bloomsbury Avenue, unit block, 10:42 a.m. Feb. 20. Crews from the Arbutus, Lansdowne and Violetville volunteer stations and Catonsville, Halethorpe, Randallstown, Westview and Woodlawn career stations responded to the report of an apartment fire in Catonsville.

Howard County fire officials say two people were injured in an apartment fire that occurred Saturday evening in the 9100 block of Gracious End Court in Columbia. Shortly before 8 p.m., Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue units responded to an automatic fire alarm, and the county 911 center also received calls about a fire and a possible burn victim. Responders found there had been a flash fire in the dining room of a third floor apartment. Officials said the fire caused a sprinkler to activate, and the blaze was extinguished.

A large, two-alarm fire tore through an Odenton apartment building near Fort Meade on Wednesday afternoon, damaging 12 units and displacing about 30 people, according to the Anne Arundel Fire Department. The fire occurred in the same Seven Oaks complex that was damaged by another two-alarm fire in September. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire remained under investigation, said Chief Michael Cox, a department spokesman. Firefighters responded about 1:11 p.m. to find fire coming from the rear of the building, burning up the complex's three stories.

Many of the 108 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received for medical and fire-rescue service during the period Oct. 28 through Nov. 4 were for electrical and power lines down and basements flooded due to Superstorm Sandy. Among them were the following: Wilkens Avenue, 4100 block, 7:20 a.m. Oct. 31. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Halethorpe career station responded to the report of a motor vehicle accident in Arbutus. Two people with non-life-threatening injuries taken to a local hospital.

An early morning fire at a Randallstown apartment complex has displaced 16 people and damaged 12 units. One firefighter from the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company received minor injuries and has been treated and released from an area hospital. Firefighters responded shortly after 2 a.m., when the the Baltimore County 911 Center received several calls about a fire on the third floor of a building in the 3600 block Yennar Lane, near North Rolling Road. The fire spread quickly across the attic and through the roof of two adjoining buildings.