Photographer: WMAR
Posted: 09/08/2010
BALTIMORE - Good Morning Maryland received exclusive video overnight from a viewer of a late night fire that broke out in Mt. Vernon that added to a day of a number of fires in Baltimore City.
ABC2 News viewers, Balazs Vagvolgyi, shot the latest fire that broke out at the corner of Madison and Charles Streets a little before 11:30pm Wednesday night. According to Baltimore City Fire dispatchers, the apartment building was occupied but authorities say no one was inside at the time. Investigators are still looking for a cause.
The fire in Mt. Vernon added to a long day of house fires in Baltimore City including two four-alarm fires that tore through multiple row houses in West Baltimore Wednesday evening.
Crews were called to the 1300 Block of North Calhoun St. around 5:30 p.m. and when they arrived, they found a heavy fire coming from a row home.
The fire quickly spread to homes on both sides of North Calhoun and reached three additional homes on nearby North Carey Street.
Reports from the scene say as many as eleven dwellings were affected by the fire with fire officials confirming that one of the homes was occupied.
A spokesman with the Baltimore City Fire Department says that one firefighter sustained minor injuries battling the fires.
Fire crews from Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis City, and Howard County, and Washington, D.C., assisted in extinguishing the fires.
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