Smoke Inhalation

Two people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation Sunday after a mid-day house fire in Glen Burnie. Two people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation Sunday after a mid-day house fire in Glen Burnie. Anne Arundel County firefighters were called to a house in the first block of Harvard Road at about 2 p.m., and found a fire burning in the home's kitchen. It was quickly brought under control, said Battalion Chief Steve Thompson. A 30-year-old man and a 3-year-old boy were taken to the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center for treatment for smoke inhalation in the hospital's hyperbaric chamber.

A man was in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night after he was rescued from a fire early yesterday that extensively damaged a two-story dwelling in the 2700 block of Parkwood Ave. in West Baltimore, authorities said. Four ambulances transported eight people ranging in age from 1 to 63 to Shock Trauma. All but one were released after being treated for smoke inhalation, authorities said. Earl Dawkins, 58, of the Parkwood Avenue dwelling was admitted in critical condition after suffering burns and smoke inhalation, police said.

Five-year-old twin boys who were playing with matches ignited a blaze that destroyed their Riviera Beach home yesterday morning, Anne Arundel County fire officials said. Shortly after 8 a.m., the twins informed their mother, Dawn Kiser, that they had accidentally started a fire in a bedroom of the two-story townhouse in the 8500 block of Beacon Point Road. All of the house's occupants - Kiser, the twins, another of her children and two nieces - escaped without serious injury. However, Kiser's nieces, ages 3 and 6, were transported to North Arundel Hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation, fire officials said.

A New Windsor man was treated for smoke inhalation after a neighbor discovered a chair on fire in a back room of a three-story apartment building yesterday morning, according to the state fire marshal.Fifteen firefighters from volunteer companies in New Windsor, Union Bridge and Westminster took about 10 minutes to control the blaze, which caused about $1,000 damage to the apartment in the 300 block of Main St. The fire was reported at 10: 33 a.m.The preliminary cause was listed as careless smoking.

An employee suffered smoke inhalation last night when a fire extensively damaged a storeroom at the McDonald's restaurant at Yorktowne Plaza in Cockeysville, Baltimore County police and fire officials said.The one-alarm fire, which forced other employees and several customers from the restaurant in the 500 block of Cranbrook Road, began in a storeroom and was reported at 6: 57 p.m., a fire official said. The fire, which filled the restaurant with smoke, was under control shortly after 8 p.m., the official said.

Names of the two people killed in Baltimore house fires this year were released yesterday by the city Fire Department. The causes of the blazes remain under investigation. The city's first fire victim of the year, 60-year-old Lucille Simpkins, was found dead of burns and smoke inhalation about 5:30 a.m. on New Year's Day in a burning rowhouse in the 1600 block of Darley Ave., where entry had been impeded by security grates. The other victim, Edward B. Smith, 60, was unconscious when firefighters pulled him from his burning rowhouse in the 500 block of N. Milton Ave. Monday evening.

A Columbia woman and her three grandchildren suffered smoke inhalation Saturday when children playing with a sparkler set a bed on fire, a spokesman for the state fire marshal's office said.Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Robert B. Thomas Jr. said Evelyn Barber, 58, of Abbott House in the 5400 block of Cedar Lane in Harper's Choice village entered her sixth-floor apartment about 6: 40 p.m. Saturday and found her twin 11-year-old grandchildren attempting to extinguish the fire.Thomas said Barber got the twins and a 12-year-old grandchild out of the apartment and activated a fire alarm in the hallway.

A Maryland man is in critical condition after a house fire in Oxon Hill that caused more than $50,000 in damage.  A Prince George's County fire official says firefighters were called to a home in the 5100 block of Boulder Drive around 5:30 a.m. Sunday. Firefighters evacuated an approximately 50-year-old man from the home. He was taken to the hospital with burns smoke inhalation injuries.  The man's wife was also taken to the hospital with symptoms of smoke inhalation. Officials say she is in fair condition.  Investigators believe the cause of the fire may be a kerosene space heater.

MADISON, Ind. -- The two bird hunters who found the body of 12-year-old Shanda Renee Sharer on that cold, sunny morning in January, said it looked at first like a department store mannequin, dumped off near some woods beside an isolated gravel road.But as Donn and Ralph Foley walked up to the charred figure, just a few hundred yards from their home north of Madison in Jefferson County, they quickly realized that it was not.Shanda's burned and tortured body was all too real. The chilling details of her death would leave the 12,000 residents of this picture-postcard Ohio River town deeply shaken and searching for answers.

A two-alarm fire that started shortly before midnight Wednesday damaged a Glen Burnie apartment building and sent four residents and one firefighter to area hospitals for treatment of burns and smoke inhalation.Twenty-four residents of the building in the 100 block of Governor's Court were forced into the bitter cold by the fire, which began in the rear bedroom of a basement apartment and spread quickly.It took firefighters 45 minutes to put out the fire in the 11-unit building, Fire Battalion Chief J. Gary Sheckells said.