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On February 9th around 12:30 PM fire was reported in a dwelling in the 2200 block of West Fayette Street in the Penrose/Fayette Street Outreach community of west Baltimore. The homeowner noticed her lights flickering and smelled smoke and went to the second floor of her home to investigate. She encountered heavy smoke and called 9-1-1 and fled to the outside. When the first units arrived they reported heavy smoke and fire from the second floor of the 2-story rowhouse.
Units entered the house for an interior attack and when they reached the second floor extreme hoarding conditions hampered their efforts to get to the fire. They reported to Command and evacuated outside to commence exterior operations. Command requested the working fire assignment at 12:41 as fire broke through the roof and extended to both rooftop exposures.
A second alarm was sounded ten minutes later and companies went into both exposures, which were vacant, to check and cut off the spread of the fire. Units battled the fire for the next hour until it was placed under control. The roof had collapsed into the second floor of the fire building and firefighters still couldn’t gain entry in there to completely extinguish the fire.
No injuries were reported and units maintained a fire watch throughout the night until the Department of Public Works showed up the next morning to demolish the condemned structure. Engine 57, the foam unit, was also requested to the scene to suppress the hidden pockets of fire before demolition operations could begin.
Units entered the house for an interior attack and when they reached the second floor extreme hoarding conditions hampered their efforts to get to the fire. They reported to Command and evacuated outside to commence exterior operations. Command requested the working fire assignment at 12:41 as fire broke through the roof and extended to both rooftop exposures.
A second alarm was sounded ten minutes later and companies went into both exposures, which were vacant, to check and cut off the spread of the fire. Units battled the fire for the next hour until it was placed under control. The roof had collapsed into the second floor of the fire building and firefighters still couldn’t gain entry in there to completely extinguish the fire.
No injuries were reported and units maintained a fire watch throughout the night until the Department of Public Works showed up the next morning to demolish the condemned structure. Engine 57, the foam unit, was also requested to the scene to suppress the hidden pockets of fire before demolition operations could begin.
© Howard Meile III