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By Carrie Wells and Nayana Davis, The Baltimore Sun | June 4, 2014
No one was injured when a two-alarm blaze broke out in a Towson retirement home Wednesday morning, Baltimore County officials said. The fire broke out inside a kitchen of an individual unit in the Blakehurst Retirement Community building at 1055 West Joppa Road at around 7:30 a.m., county fire officials said. It quickly escalated to two alarms. Officials initially said the building was being evacuated, but later said most residents sheltered in place. Some residents did choose to leave the building until the incident was under control.
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By Larry Carson, The Baltimore Sun | February 28, 2011
A midday, two-alarm fire heavily damaged the western Ellicott City townhouse where it began and two adjoining units Monday, according to Howard County fire officials. Howard County Fire Department Battalion Chief Gordon Wallace said the fire in the 10500 block of Old Ellicott Circle was reported at 12:50 p.m. and arriving crews found the garage townhouse engulfed in flames. Units on both sides of the three-level house were also damaged, and two vehicles in the garage were destroyed, he said, though the homes are equipped with sprinklers.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | November 15, 2012
A Baltimore County woman died after a two-alarm fire engulfed a Reisterstown's home Wednesday, county officials said. Karen Diener, 59, died Wednesday morning at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center after a fire broke out in her home in the unit block of Blake Court about 1 a.m. Police said the cause of the fire remains under investigation, but there is no indication at this time that it was intentionally set. About 15 fire companies, with...
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | April 12, 2013
A two-alarm fire burned three homes in the city's Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood on Friday morning, according to the Baltimore Fire Department. Firefighters responded to the scene in the 1100 block of Ward St. shortly after 6 a.m. and found heavy smoke and flames, a dispatcher said. The fire extended to three homes — all of which were believed to be vacant — before being brought under control at 7:12 a.m., the dispatcher said. No injuries were reported to civilians or firefighters, he said.
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By Brent Jones | brent.jones@baltsun.com and Baltimore Sun reporter | February 16, 2010
A two-alarm fire at an Anne Arundel County school Tuesday morning damaged several classrooms and took more than an hour to bring under control, county fire officials said. Emergency dispatchers received a call about 5:40 a.m. for a fire at Eagle Cove School, in the 5100 block of Mountain Road in Pasadena. Investigators said the blaze started above a fourth-grade classroom near a heating and air unit inside the school's North Building. At least two other classrooms sustained water and smoke damage, according to a fire department spokesman.
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By Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | April 21, 2013
A two-alarm fire engulfed two connected homes in Southwest Baltimore's Irvington neighborhood Sunday afternoon, though no one was injured even after part of the building collapsed, city fire officials said. The fire started in one of two houses in the unit block of Augusta Avenue, fire department spokesman Capt. Roman Clark said, and four adults in that home were alerted by smoke alarms and were able to get out safely. No one was at home in the second house, where the fire spread, though a resident has been notified.