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On Thursday, April 7, 2016 Second Battalion units from the west side were alerted for Fire Box 36-05 for an apartment fire in the Lansdowne Apartments located in the 2400 block of Tionesta Road. The first arriving units from Lansdowne and English Consul Volunteers along with career units Engine and Truck 5 from Halethorpe reported heavy fire showing from the roof of a 3-story garden apartment. Units started an aggressive interior attack and were driven out by heavy fire and heat conditions above them. The fire was starting to ignite the roof of the adjacent apartment and the RIT Task Force and second alarm were requested by Battalion Chief 2, Joe Brown. Units only had clear access from Side A with ladder pipes and monitor pipes. Portable ladders and hand lines had to be carried to the rear of the building. The bulk of the fire was knocked down by Truck 5’s ladder pipe. Several minutes later it flared back up from the rest of the roof and a third alarm was requested bringing in mutual aid units from Baltimore City, Anne Arundel and Howard County’s, and BWI Airport FD. A brick fire wall between the two apartment buildings kept the fire from spreading.
The fire was brought under control within an hour. Fire Investigation was requested to the scene. There was some minor damage to the adjacent apartment. This was the second fire in this apartment complex in the last two years.
About 30 people were displaced and the Red Cross was dispatched to assist those people to relocate. The initial cause was said to be careless smoking in bed. That person from that apartment was taken to the hospital with breathing problems and one firefighter was transported from the fireground suffering from dehydration