Structural fire damages roof and adjacent walls, Baltimore County MD

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/12/2025 07:01 AM

Hill Rd, Maryland 21120

Firefighters responded to a fire involving the roof and walls of a building on Hill Road in Maryland. The fire extended across multiple sides of the structure. Crews worked with towers and engines to control and extinguish the fire, including knocking down the fire area and holding units after control.

Audio|Source: Baltimore County Fire and EMS - Digital

02:32

Transcript:

00:00

Middick 615-96 Subject (number withheld) Germain Hill Road rushes Meadow Road and Plainfield Road on east 1002.

00:23

Ken reports from side Charlie is significant fire involvement of the roof on the Charlie side with extension into your Bravo exposure on the wall and then the Delta side at the Eaves.

00:38

Truck 13 is working on the Delta side roof pulling back and checking that.

00:43

And I'm going to need another crew to do the same on the Bravo wall.

00:48

down direction.

00:49

I'm sending you tower 323.

00:50

All right, Ricky, can you bring the tower around water wheel and come up here and shoot this strip from the backside? There's room around that engine.

01:02

All right, I'll try.

01:08

Man, where 404 is, if 323 backs down there, they can get that corner of the strip, correct?

01:18

For the Air 1?

01:21

They're probably not going to be able to hit the Charlie Sinclair 401 is.

01:26

I don't, they can hit Alpha and I'm down to out there.

01:30

Yeah, I want them to hit Alpha.

01:31

Just there's room if they back down to where you are towards Engine 18, correct?

01:37

Yeah, there's room and I have my own hybrid and I'll charge it for them.

01:45

323, you're right on that message.

01:52

Okay, no.

01:58

K-T1157 arrives.

02:00

K-T1-5-7, 1044.

02:08

Mission engine 41, 1310-0401-10-4-8.

02:16

...5 agreement for greater for the period of this.

02:21

All right, man.

02:23

Command from dispatch, 20 minute, right here.

02:27

Polk of the fire has been knocked.

02:30

Cruiser-and-Secretion, we're going to hold all units for now.

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