Stanley Jaworski was on the scene of a fire that was reported around 11:30 PM New Year’s Night at 315 North Howard Street in Baltimore. The fire was in a vacant seven-story building. Four alarms were sounded. One firefighter was injured. Here are some of the Baltimore Fire Department rigs in action during the overnight hours.
A five-alarm fire today in Baltimore, Maryland heavily damaged a portion of the adult entertainment district known as “The Block”. It also threatened Baltimore City Fire Department Headquarters at 401 East Fayette Street, across a narrow alley from the fire buildings. The pictures of apparatus on the fireground were taken this evening and provided to FireTruckBlog.com by Stanley J. Jaworski. You can see more of Stanley’s pictures here.
We have some earlier coverage of the fire here and you can listen to fireground audio on STATter911.com.
According to WJZ-TV, nearly 50 fire apparatus and over 100 firefighters responded to a 5-alarm fire in downtown Baltimore. The fire was first reported around 4 p.m. and took 3 hours to get under control.
Chief Kevin Cartwright at around 5:30 p.m: “We believe at this point four to five buildings have suffered damage…soon as the conditions are safe to do so, we’ll have our investigators go inside and determine what caused the fire.”
Firefighters attacked the blaze from the top, pouring water on the affected buildings. The fire began at 404 E. Baltimore Street, which contains two clubs and a bookstore. It’s spread down the block, as far as a restaurant named Crazy John’s. The damage to the buildings is not known.
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