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On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 around 9:26AM firefighters were called to a fire burning through the first floor of a rowhouse fire in the 2600 block of Llewelyn Avenue in east Baltimore. Authorities said someone driving by the area called 9-1-1. Fire officials and witnesses said two people jumped from a second story window to escape the flames. Witnesses said there were many neighbors outside at the time of the fire, and one of them may have saved a life. A fire chief at the scene confirmed three people were injured, two of them seriously.
The fire gutted the rowhouse in the middle of the block and shut down several streets in the area for several hours. It took about 20 minutes to bring the fire under control. There’s no immediate word on a cause of the fire. “We have investigators on the scene at this time looking through the rubble of the fire, and they’re trying to come up with a cause,” Baltimore City Fire Chief Roman Clark said. The investigation was just getting underway in the afternoon because, for some time, the rowhome was too dangerous for anyone to go inside and investigators couldn’t interview the three residents because they’re in the hospital.
Neighbors were allowed back into their homes around noon.
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