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Crews are still battling a massive 7-alarm fire that started Monday night around 7 p.m. at a multi-story mattress warehouse near North Bentalou Street and Edmondson Avenue. This blaze is serious—and it’s still going.

Over 100 firefighters are battling a massive warehouse fire in West Baltimore with multiple underground levels, making it tough to control. Thirty people from 15 households were evacuated and are getting help from the Red Cross. Amtrak service between D.C. and Wilmington was temporarily shut down but is now running with some delays. Fire crews also faced low water pressure due to small residential water mains. Amazingly, no injuries have been reported so far.

This is still an active situation and we will keep you updated as more information becomes available.


Source: WBAL

2 Baltimore firefighters injured battling blaze in downtown

From one fire-related headline to another. But this one resulted in two Baltimore City firefighters being injured while fighting a fire on West Saratoga Street, near Park Avenue. Sadly, one of them is in critical condition. The cause of that fire is still under investigation.

But Maryland’s Fire Marshal is warning families of a dangerous social media trend involving chrome books. Evidently kids are sticking metal or pencils into the Chromebook charging ports to make them short-circuit. Yeah, not smart. This can cause fires, explosions, and even electrocution.

And they say they have seen quite a few cases of this already. So please educate the kids about this danger and lets not lose any lives or valuables to stupidity.

Source: CBS