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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Compactor Fire in Elkridge

ELKRIDGE, MD – Numerous units from Howard, Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties battled a fire in a large warehouse.

At approximately 8 AM, firefighters were dispatched to a fire in the 7100 block of Kit Kat Road in Elkridge. Units arrived to find a large warehouse with fire in the compactor and conveyor belt

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Fire Alarm Alerts Occupants to Kitchen Fire

COLUMBIA, MD – A residential fire alarm functioned correctly this morning, and may have alerted occupants to a kitchen fire.

At approximately 10 AM, firefighters were dispatched to a residential fire alarm in the 9100 block of Vollmerhausen Drive in the Kings Contrivance village of Columbia.

Shortly after the initial dispatch, the Howard County

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