A two-alarm house fire displaced at least 15 residents and injured two Maryland firefighters early Monday.
The blaze was reported just before 2 a.m. at a row house in Severn, WJZ-TV reports. When Anne Arundel County crews arrived, firefighters could see flames spreading from the end house to a nearby residence.
“I was asleep for school, and my sister just ran in my room and said come on, come on, the house is on fire,” a resident told WJZ. “So I didn’t have any clothes on. I threw on my nightgown, and I didn’t grab any shoes, and I just ran out of the house. It was a big fire in the corner of the house and my dad was trying to get it out. Eventually, we all had to come out of the house because it wasn’t going out. So my dad knocked on the neighbor’s doors, the whole row, and told everybody to come out.”
Two firefighters suffered heat exhaustion, and they were taken to the hospital. Fire officials told WJZ that the smoke alarms in both homes probably saved residents.
