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Massive Dining Room Fire At Maryland Summer Camp Causes Extensive Damage: Officials Massive Dining Room Fire At Maryland Summer Camp Causes Extensive Damage: Officials
Massive Dining Room Fire At Maryland Summer Camp Causes Extensive Damage: Officials Upwards of 100 firefighters from Maryland and Pennsylvania worked through the morning on Wednesday, June 29 to help contain a massive two-alarm fire that broke out in the dining hall of a popular boy’s summer camp. A fire that broke out at Camp Airy in Thurmont shortly after 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, which quickly spread to the rest of the facility, according to the Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services. The dining room fire at Camp Airy in Frederick County caused extensive damage.Facebook/Leitersburg Volunteer Fire Company Officials noted that though the camp is i…

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by Zak Failla
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Community Raises $58K+ For Family Of PA Firefighter Who Died After Battling Blaze In MD Community Raises $58K+ For Family Of PA Firefighter Who Died After Battling Blaze In MD
Community Raises $58K+ For Family Of PA Firefighter Who Died After Battling Blaze In MD An Adams County man serving as a captain with a Maryland fire company has died from injuries sustained in the line of duty. Captain Joshua Laird, 46, of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, was a 21-year veteran of Frederick County Division of Fire and Rescue Services, he tragically died in hospital after following through the floor of home during a fire, according to the fire company's Facebook page. Laird's crew was called to a house fire in the 9500 block of Ball Road on Wednesday just before 5 p.m. Upon arrival crews found a two-story single-family home with fire showing, so additional crews were …

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by Jillian Pikora