Building Fire

Charity has gotten them through a bleak Christmas, but some of those routed from their homes in Severn last Friday by a fire are wondering what the new year will bring.The Salvation Army provided clothing and some food. The Red Cross paid for five of the seven families to stay at the Red Carpet Inn in Odenton for four nights, and the county Department of Social Services picked up the tab for some of the families to stay through Tuesday.Employees pitched in to cook Christmas dinner for the remaining four adults and four children at the motel after fire broke out at the inn early Sunday morning, displacing them from damaged rooms.

Among the 78 calls for medical, fire and rescue service the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received during the period April 7-14 were the following: 100 Kenwood Avenue, 2:34 a.m. April 11. Crews from the Arbutus, English Consul and Lansdowne volunteer stations and Catonsville, Halethorpe, Randallstown, Westview and Woodlawn career stations responded to the report of a fire on the campus of the Western School of Technology and Environmental Science....

The pounding footsteps on the floor above startled Franklin Bilbrey awake. Then he heard a fire alarm going off. He poked his head over the rear balcony and looked up to see the apartment above his engulfed in smoke and flames. Bilbrey, an Anne Arundel County police detective, woke his wife and 17-year-old son, helping them to safely escape their building at the St. Charles at Olde Court apartment complex near Randallstown that burned early yesterday and killed a 6-month-old infant. While his family ran out, Bilbrey climbed stairs to the third floor where the fire was raging, but he had to turn back.

Firefighters from several local companies were called to fight a fire in a Fallston barn on Friday afternoon. The fire destroyed most of the 40-by-25 foot barn and a smaller chicken coop, killing 20 chickens and 14 hens, according to the notice of investigation from the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office. Damage was estimated at $60,000 to the structure and $20,000 to the contents, according to fire investigators. The call for a working building fire in the 800 block of Reckord Road was broadcast by Harford County's emergency dispatch shortly after 2 p.m. Several pieces of firefighting equipment and medical support were requested from the Fallston, Bel Air, Kingsville, Jarrettsville and Long Green volunteer fire companies in Harford and Baltimore counties, according to monitored broadcasts.

FireWest Friendship: Sykesville firefighters assisted Howard County for a building fire at 10:29 p.m. Thursday. Units were out 15 minutes.

FIRE* Mount Airy: Fire units from Mount Airy responded to a building fire on Old National Pike at 5:19 a.m. on Monday. They were out for 28 minutes.

FIRE* Hampstead: Engines from the Hampstead station were dispatched to investigate a report of a building fire on Upper Beckleysville Road at 2:22 p.m. Sunday. They were out for 15 minutes.

FIRE* Mount Airy: Engines from the Mount Airy fire station assisted Frederick County for a building fire on Green Valley Road at 9:41 p.m. Wednesday. Units were out for one hour and 19 minutes.

FireSykesville: Engines from Sykesville, Gamber, Winfield and West Friendship of Howard County responded to a building fire on Second Street at 7:04 a.m. Wednesday. Units were out 40 minutes.

FireMount Airy: Firefighters assisted Frederick County at 5: 35 a.m. Wednesday, responding to a building fire on West Main Street in New Market. Units were out 20 minutes.Pub Date: 6/28/96

Among the 85 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received for medical and fire-rescue service during the period March 3-10 were the following: Frederick Road, 6300 block, 3:00 p.m. March 15. Crews from the Arbutus and Violetville volunteer stations and Catonsville, Halethorpe, Randallstown, Westview and Woodlawn career stations responded to the report of a building fire in Catonsville and found smoke, but no fire. Interstate-695 between exits 12 and 13, 7:45 p.m. March 14. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Catonsville career station responded to the report of a brush fire on the Baltimore Beltway in the Catonsville area near the Wilkens Avenue and Edmondson Avenue exits and extinguished the fire.

Your recent article about Truck Company 10 accurately portrayed the role this and other units played in the rescue of three young children from an early morning apartment building fire on West Lexington Street ("Union lauds fire co. set to disband," May 7). Truck 10, which along with Truck Company 15 and Squad 11, is slated to be closed permanently on July 1, has already taken 2,212 runs this year, including 79 reports of fire. Each of these three companies responds to thousands of calls from citizens every year.

A fire truck and ambulance collided as they were headed to a building fire Friday night, sending two paramedics to the hospital. Around 8 p.m., two Baltimore City Fire Department units - Engine Company 13 and Medic 15 - were responding to a fire in the 700 block of Lennox St. when they smashed into each other at the intersection of West North Ave. and Park Ave., according to a statement from Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the fire...

Among the 53 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received for medical and fire-rescue service Feb. 12-19 were the following: Interstate 195 between exits 3 and 4, 1:47 a.m. Feb. 18. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Catonsville career station responded to the report of a motor vehicle accident with rollover in Arbutus and found an overturned vehicle with no occupants. Paradise Avenue, 5700 block, 12:46 a.m. Feb. 18. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Halethorpe career station responded to assist Howard County units in extinguishing a fire in the basement of a house in Elkridge.

Among the 61 calls the Arbutus Volunteer Fire Department received for medical and fire-rescue service Sept. 25-Oct. 2 were the following: Frederick Road at Wade Avenue, 3:51 p.m. Sept. 28. Crews from the Arbutus volunteer station and Catonsville, Halethorpe and Westview career stations responded to the report of a building fire in Catonsville and found smoke from a crematorium. 800 South Rolling Road, Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville campus, 1:25 p.m. Sept.

Thirty-four people were displaced and seven injured by a two-alarm fire early Thursday in the 5600 block of Stevens Forest Road in Columbia. The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services reported that 10 apartments at the Autumn Crest complex were affected by the fire at 1:30 a.m. and that crews had to rescue about eight residents of the three-story building with ladders. According to Battalion Chief Gordon Wallace, seven residents were injured in the fire, and two adults and one child were taken to an area hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening.

Dozens of Anne Arundel County firefighters battled throughout the night to contain a five-alarm blaze that broke out just south of Odenton on Saturday, said Capt. James Rostek, spokesman for the fire department. "We've been hitting hot spots all night long and the battle continues," Rostek said Sunday morning. High winds that drove the flames Saturday had died down by Sunday morning. However, by Sunday morning the amount of affected land had grown from about 100 acres to between 200 and 300 acres, Rostek said.