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Maryland Apartment Fire Leaves Two Adults Hospitalized After Late-Night Evacuation (VIDEO) Maryland Apartment Fire Leaves Two Adults Hospitalized After Late-Night Evacuation (VIDEO)
Maryland Apartment Fire Leaves Two Adults Hospitalized After Late-Night Evacuation (Video) A late-night apartment fire in Maryland sent two people to the hospital Monday after flames broke out inside an eight-story building in Hillcrest Heights, fire officials said. Prince George’s County Fire/EMS said crews were called around 9:30 p.m. Monday to the 3200 block of Curtis Drive, where firefighters arrived to find fire showing from the fourth floor of a multi-family building. Firefighters got the flames out and reported all searches were negative. EMS crews then began evaluating residents who evacuated the building, officials said. Update 3200 block Curtis Dr: 1 adult cardiac p…

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$1M Fire Rips Through Apartment Building In DMV, Displaces Six Families: Officials $1M Fire Rips Through Apartment Building In DMV, Displaces Six Families: Officials
$1M Fire Rips Through Apartment Building In DMV, Displaces Six Families: Officials It started with a mattress — and sent flames through the top floor. A two-alarm fire caused nearly $1 million in damage, injured two Montgomery County firefighters, and displaced at least six families in Gaithersburg on Tuesday, July 1, officials said. Fire crews responded around 10 a.m. to a three-story apartment building at 746 Quince Orchard Boulevard, near Rabbit Road in the Potomac Oaks community, according to MCFRS spokesperson Pete Piringer. More… Quince Orchard Boulevard, three-story apartment building,, nearly 100 FFs on scene, temp on scene 90°, two (2) firefighters injured/ev…

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32 Displaced By Kitchen Fire In DMV Apartment, Officials Say 32 Displaced By Kitchen Fire In DMV Apartment, Officials Say
32 Displaced By Kitchen Fire In DMV Apartment, Officials Say More than 30 people were forced from their homes after a kitchen fire tore through a Maryland apartment building, fire officials said. Montgomery County Fire & Rescue crews were called to the 18000 block of Cottage Garden Drive around 12:45 p.m. on Monday, June 16, for reports of a kitchen fire on the third floor of an apartment complex, according to a department spokesperson. Firefighters arrived to find smoke showing from the upper-level unit, though it was brought under control with no injuries initially reported. According to investigators, the fire originated in a void space above…

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Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials
Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials A Hagerstown man accused of threatening to “burn the building down” made good on his word — torching a downtown apartment complex with more than a dozen people inside, authorities said. Dameon Davonte Irby, 32, has been arrested and charged in connection to a fire that damaged a Hagerstown apartment building while 14 residents were inside, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. on Monday, May 19, at 56 E. Antietam St., when Hagerstown firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the third floor of the building. Crews encountered…

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Trapped Residents Rescued From Burning Virginia Apartment, Fire Officials Say Trapped Residents Rescued From Burning Virginia Apartment, Fire Officials Say
Trapped Residents Rescued From Burning Virginia Apartment, Fire Officials Say Residents had to climb out windows as firefighters rushed to rescue them from a burning Virginia apartment building early Wednesday, officials said. The blaze was reported just before sunrise on South Quebec Street in Arlington on May 15, when a fire broke out in a stairwell, trapping people inside, according to Arlington Fire & EMS. Crews arrived quickly to the building and launched a full-on ladder rescue, pulling multiple residents from upper-floor windows as the fire spread, officials said. Arlington Fire Department Two people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening …

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Stabbing Suspect Set Apartment On Fire Before Deadly Police Shooting In DMV: Officials Stabbing Suspect Set Apartment On Fire Before Deadly Police Shooting In DMV: Officials
Stabbing Suspect Set Apartment On Fire Before Deadly Police Shooting In DMV: Officials A knife-wielding man stabbed two people and torched their apartment on Easter Sunday before being tracked down and killed in an officer-involved Maryland shooting, police say. Prince George's County Police Chief Malik Aziz confirmed that a suspect was shot and killed during a confrontation at National Harbor late on Sunday morning following a violent morning. The ordeal began shortly before 8:30 a.m. on April 20, when officers in Oxon Hill responded to a reported stabbing in the 8300 block of Indian Head Highway, where they found a man and woman critically injured by a person who fled the s…

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