MILLERSVILLE, Md. – One
person has died following a two-alarm dwelling fire early Monday morning in
Brooklyn Park.
Firefighters responded to a
call reporting a fire in the area of
Brookwood Road this morning around 4:35 a.m. The 911 caller was from Southerly
Avenue and could only provide a general location of the fire. Firefighters
located the fire in a two-story, middle of the group rowhome in the 5200 block
of Brookwood Road, near Christian Road, and
reported smoke and fire from the second floor.
Firefighters made entry to
extinguish the fire and perform search and rescue for possible occupants. They
located an adult male on the second floor and removed him to the exterior where
he was determined to be in cardiac arrest. Paramedics made efforts to
resuscitate him on the scene and when those efforts were not successful he was
declared deceased.
During efforts to search the
dwelling, a male firefighter fell through the second floor to the first floor. Other firefighters quickly removed him from the
residence. He sustained possibly serious injuries and was transported by
paramedics to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. His injuries
are not life-threatening.
Sixty firefighters from Anne
Arundel County, Baltimore City, and BWI
Thurgood Marshal Airport brought the fire under control in about 20 minutes.
There were no additional injuries, and
the deceased was the only occupant home at the time of the fire. There was
damage to an adjacent home that is unoccupied and under renovation and also to
two other occupied homes. The two occupied homes received smoke damage, but the occupants will not likely be
displaced.
Members of the Anne Arundel
County Fire and Explosives Investigation Unit are on the scene. The cause of the fire is undetermined
and under investigation.
The firefighter injured in this fire has been released from the hospital.
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