Crews Rescue Elderly Woman from Vehicle in Pool

Photo and article courtesy of Howard County Department of Fire & Rescue Services

At 1:30 a.m. the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services was dispatched to the 6600 block of Carlinda Avenue in Columbia to assist Howard County Police.  Special Operations units arrived and reported a driver trapped in a vehicle submerged

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Ellicott City House Fire Sends Two Firefighters to Hospital

Two firefighters were hospitalized after battling a basement fire in Ellicott City.

 

Units were dispatched to the 2000 block of Diane Lane at 5:12 PM for a report of smoke coming from the house across from the caller’s address. Engine 82 arrived to find smoke showing from a single family house and, working

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Firefighters Find Missing Autistic Teen

Firefighters from Special Operations and the Elkridge station assisted Howard County Police with locating a missing fifteen year old autistic teen in Elkridge.

Units were alerted to assist County Police at approximately 3:15 AM, bringing the Special Ops team and units from Elkridge. Personnel searched the area on foot and using all terrain vehicles.

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Crews Deliver Baby Boy in Elkridge

On the morning of Thursday, July 14, 2011 (A shift), personnel from Paramedic 15 were dispatched to an emergency medical response in the 5800 block of Diggers Lane in Elkridge.  As personnel were responding, they were advised that the incident was a maternity call, and Paramedic Engine 101 (filling in at Station 1) was dispatched

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Second Alarm Warehouse Fire in Elkridge

The Howard County Department of Fire & Rescue Services’ 911 center received a telephone call at approximately 10:15p.m. on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, reporting a large fire in a commercial building in the 7400 block of Washington Boulevard in Elkridge.  Units were dispatched and arrived on scene within 4 minutes, reporting a working fire

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Fire & Rescue Personnel Treat, Transport Multiple Patients at North Laurel Carbon Monoxide Incident

What originally began as a check on the welfare of a person at a Laurel hotel grew into 11 occupants of the building being transported to local hospitals.

At 8:32 PM, emergency medical personnel were dispatched to the Sleep Inn hotel on North Second Street for a check up of a subject who had

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