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Around 1130 hours on Sunday, March 2nd Fire box 29-40 was struck out for a reported dwelling fire in the 3600 block of Reisterstown Road, in northwest Baltimore. The first arriving units encountered a whole row of 2 ½ story, "Code X-Ray” vacant dwellings with the one at 3624 well involved in fire. The initial orders were exterior operations only. Companies began setting up ladder pipes. Command requested the working fire and a special call for Tower 1 to be set up in front. Access in the rear was limited because of heavy vegetation on all of the vacant dwellings.
Firefighters used handlines and ladder pipes in the front and were having trouble getting at the interior fire due to a collapse in the original fire building. The fire was spreading to both sides through a common cockloft and was buried under the fallen debris. Shift Commander Mark Ruff arrived on the scene and took Command and requested the second alarm around noon. Units continued to pour water onto the fire and it was placed under control in about 90 minutes.
There were no injuries reported and FIB was on the scene to determine the cause of the fire. Traffic was detoured around the scene and companies remained on the scene mopping up hot spots for another
Firefighters used handlines and ladder pipes in the front and were having trouble getting at the interior fire due to a collapse in the original fire building. The fire was spreading to both sides through a common cockloft and was buried under the fallen debris. Shift Commander Mark Ruff arrived on the scene and took Command and requested the second alarm around noon. Units continued to pour water onto the fire and it was placed under control in about 90 minutes.
There were no injuries reported and FIB was on the scene to determine the cause of the fire. Traffic was detoured around the scene and companies remained on the scene mopping up hot spots for another
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