Firefighters and police got a call around 12:30 a.m. about a fire with somebody who needed to be rescued. They arrived to find heavy flames showing from the garden style apartments.
Workers clean up debris outside the rear of apartments in the 6700 block of Townbrook Drive, where a three-alarm fire early Christmas morning displaced residents and critically injured a boy in a top floor unit.A 7-year-old boy died on Christmas after being critically injured in an early morning fire that tore through a Gwynn Oak apartment building after someone didn’t properly extinguish cigarettes, Baltimore County Fire officials said.
Firefighters and police got a call around 12:30 a.m. about a fire with somebody who needed to be rescued. They arrived to find heavy flames showing from the garden style apartments when they arrived in the 6700 block of Townbrook Drive, according to the release. Vanessa Ingram, 61, was sound asleep when she heard a pounding on her door. The noise jolted her awake. As Ingram went to answer, she began to smell the smoke.
Officials said the American Red Cross and the management of the Gwynn Oaks Landing, Apartments & Townhomes, are assisting those who lost their residences. The apartment management did not return a message requesting comment. Residents including Ingram returned to the charred end unit to collect whatever belongings survived the fire.
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