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The first day of high temperatures in the area kept the Anne Arundel County Fire Department and the surrounding jurisdictions busy with several fires in the county.
First a 3-alarm fire broke out in two homes in Annapolis around 11:30AM causing about $750,000 in damages. Around the same time a large fire in a mulch and debris pile occurred in the NOVA Recycling Company at the Anne Arundel-Baltimore City line in Curtis Bay that eventually went to 3 alarms and brought 75 firefighters to the scene.
Around 1:30PM a 10 acre brush fire began in the Laurel-Russett community area of Maryland City. Dry gusty winds picked up embers and started a larger fire in the wooded area of the Oxbow Lake Natural Preserve that burnt its way toward the lake there. Over the next few hours 3 alarms and special calls were sounded that brought companies from as far away as St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore. Other mutual aid companies included, Baltimore City and County, Prince Georges, Howard, BWI Airport, Fort Meade as well as the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
About 75 firefighters combed the woods and beat down the flaming ground cover as well as some larger trees involved.
Firefighters were still on the scene at 6:00PM cutting down the dead burning trees and overturning leaves and wetting down the area. The DNR kept watch on the area overnight and firefighters returned around 8:00AM the next morning and knocked down hot spots until about 10:00AM.
While all of that was going on another brush fire was reported in Glen Burnie and a mulch fire next to a house in Odenton around 2:30PM that caused damage to the home. The Anne Arundel County FD resources were certainly stretched to the limits this day with at least six fires in the county.