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Sisters, Children Displaced By Fast-Moving Harford County Fire Sisters, Children Displaced By Fast-Moving Harford County Fire
Sisters, Children Displaced By Fast-Moving Harford County Fire Several children are among six who were displaced early on Tuesday morning when a fast moving fire tore through a Harford County home. A team of more than two dozen firefighters from the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company and neighboring agencies were called shortly before 6:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 to the 1100 block of Shady Drive in Edgewood when a fire broke out in an area bedroom. #jmvfc8 are on the scene of a mobile home fire in the 1100 block of Shady Dr, in Magnolia Estates Trailer Park. Fire is showing from the home. pic.twitter.com/7NDJzU73PG — Joppa-Magnolia VFC (@jmvfc8…

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by Zak Failla
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Dogs Killed, Family Displaced By Two-Alarm Washington County Barn Blaze: Fire Marshal Dogs Killed, Family Displaced By Two-Alarm Washington County Barn Blaze: Fire Marshal
Dogs Killed, Family Displaced By Two-Alarm Washington County Barn Blaze: Fire Marshal Two dogs were killed in a massive two-alarm barn fire that caused massive damage to a Washington County property on Friday night. Shortly after 8:15 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, members of the Sharpsburg Fire Department were called to Mansfield Road in Keedysville, where a neighbor reported a barn fire that had broken out, officials said. It took a team of nearly five dozen firefighters approximately 90 minutes to get the flames under control, but not before it caused an estimated $150,000 ($100,000 to the structure, $50,000 to its contents) in damage, according to the Office of the Maryland Fir…

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by Zak Failla
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Homeowner Uses Garden Hose To Contain Maryland House Fire Until Firefighters Arrive: Officials Homeowner Uses Garden Hose To Contain Maryland House Fire Until Firefighters Arrive: Officials
Homeowner Uses Garden Hose To Contain Maryland House Fire Until Firefighters Arrive: Officials A quick-thinking Maryland homeowner was able to limit the damage done to a Harford County home when an early morning blaze broke out, according to the Office of the Maryland Fire Marshal. Shortly before 4:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, a neighbor on Maulsby Avenue in Bel Air alerted firefighters to a possible incident on the front porch of a nearby home, officials said. Upon arrival, crews from the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company located the fire on the front porch of the home, and nearly two dozen firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames before they spread too far into the int…

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by Zak Failla