Incident Information

Date: 12/11/01
Address: 4800 Block
Time : 0500 Hours
Company First Due: 42

Units Responding:
Engines 261, 251, 381, 272, 202, 401, 452, 331, 461, 41, 33
DCFD Engines 33, 32, 15, 25
Truck 5, 24, 28, 22
DCFD Truck 16, 8
Tower 33, 74 (AAFB)
Rescue Squad 8, 2
Ambulance Rescue 6
Medic 29
BA 19, Light Unit 19, MSU 1

Command - Emergency Operation Chief

About 0500 Rescue Squad 8 was alerted with other units for a reported townhouse on fire on Snowflower Blvd in Oxon Hill (Co. 42). Units arrived on the scene to find a row of townhouses under construction on fire, with extension to occupied townhouses . Due to the townhouses not being finished and the fact that part of them had already collapsed from the extreme heat conditions, exterior operations were initiated from the beginning. Units from PGFD and DCFD fought this blaze using master streams and ladder pipes. Squad 8 cleared the scene in a little over an hour.


Recorded Incident Audio - Dispatch - Fireground

Audio Courtesy of Laurel VFD