At the University of Maryland in College Park, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a national warning cautioning college students to be careful about fires on campus. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission chose the University of Maryland at College Park as the venue for issuing the warning because…
Investigators In Ocean City, Maryland say that they have positively identified two of the people who were killed when a mobile home on 135th street caught fire. William Alascio, 49, and Jacqueline Robusto, 44. Robusto was ID’d after a fingerprint comparison conducted by the Maryland State Fire Marshall’s Office. Alascio’s…
A fire cadet and a fire lieutenant where injured during two separate live fire exercises in Baltimore earlier this month. The recruit, Daniel Nott, sustained a first-degree burn on his cheek while Lieutenant Sam Darby sustained a burn injury on his hand. A fire department spokesman said that mistakes during…
In Maryland, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is now Baltimore’s regional pediatric burn center. The new designation, assigned by the Maryland Institute For Emergency Medical Services, means that the Children’s Center will take care of burn victims that are 15-years-of age or younger in the city of Baltimore and from the…
Maryland State Police are investigating a vehicle-related accident that took place Near Clarksburg, Maryland last Friday when a car moving south on northbound I-270 crossed a median, hit a flatbed truck, and caught on fire. The woman was pulled out of the truck and is being treated for life-threatening injuries,…