Trash Fire

FIRE* Mount Airy: Mount Airy responded for a trash fire on Preakness Drive at 3:12 p.m. Friday. Units were out for 30 minutes.

Heat and humidity boiled up a powerful brew of thunderstorms that crossed Central Maryland yesterday after toppling a dairy farm building under construction in Frederick County. The collapse of the cow house under construction on a farm near Emmitsburg injured four workers. A severe storm or tornado warning for much of Carroll County shut down the government for about 20 minutes as employees in the County Office Building in Westminster - including the commissioners - took shelter in the basement.

FIRE* Eldersburg: Sykesville responded for a trash fire in the 6000 block of Ridge Road at 6 p.m. Sunday. Units were out for 24 minutes.

Fire Sykesville: Firefighters responded at 10: 18 p.m. Monday to a trash fire on Liberty Road. Units were out 12 minutes. Gamber: Firefighters responded at 7: 02 p.m. Monday to a pole fire in the 1900 block of Deer Park Road. Units were out 16 minutes.

FireSykesville: Firefighters responded at 11: 48 a.m. Monday to a trash fire on Sandosky Road near Village Road. Units were out 24 minutes.

FiresWinfield: Firefighters responded at 7: 12 a.m. Tuesday to a trash fire on Clear Hill Lane at Roop Road. Units were out 58 minutes.

Police Westminster: An employee of a garage on East Main Street told police Tuesday that someone took tools and equipment. Loss is estimated at $5,722. Fire Westminster: Firefighters responded at 2: 13 a.m. yesterday to a trash fire on Kate Wagner Road off Route 27. Units were out 27 minutes.

At least five people -- three of them children -- were killed in fires across Maryland yesterday, including an 11-year-old girl who was trapped on the second floor of her Southwest Baltimore rowhouse as she ran for water to douse the blaze.Police identified the girl as Laura Ashley Newton of the 500 block of S. Gilmor St.Laura had run upstairs to get water for her mother, Theresa Newton, to put out a kitchen fire. She was declared dead at the scene of the fire."She was saying, `Help me! Help me!