Woman Dies After Rescue From Brooklyn Park Fire

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — A Severn woman who was rescued Thursday night from a house fire has died of her injuries, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department announced Monday. Julie Heinze, 36, passed away Sunday at the Burn Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, the fire department said.

The cause of the fire is undetermined and remains under investigation, and it appears there were no working smoke alarms in the home, the fire department said. (Get Patch’s real-time news alerts or like us on Facebook. For iPhone users, get the free Patch app.)

The blaze broke out Thursday at a two-story, single-family home in Brooklyn Park, at the north end of the county near Baltimore, according to the fire department. Fire and rescue personnel responded to 911 calls at about 11:35 p.m. alerting them to the fire at the Cape Cod-style house in the unit block of First Avenue, near Morgan Road and Ritchie Highway.

As the firefighters arrived, they found smoke pouring from all of the windows and flames shooting from the first-floor windows in the front. Three of the house's occupants escaped the fire, but bystanders told the firefighters that one occupant, identified as Heinze, was still inside the home.

The firefighters entered the house, found Heinze on the second floor and carried her outside. Paramedics treated her at the scene before she was transported to MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore with "critical, life-threatening injuries," the fire department said.

Heinze was later transferred to the Johns Hopkins burn center. The firefighters quickly located the fire on the first floor and extinguished it.

The three other occupants, two unidentified men and a woman, were were transported Thursday night to MedStar Harbor Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries and released. The Red Cross is assisting the three adults, who were displaced by the fire, the fire department said.

The damage to the house is estimated at $75,000.

Image: Thursday night's fire broke out in this Cape Cod-style home (Anne Arundel County Fire Department).