Mobile Home Fire Sends 2 to Hospital: Fire Marshal

ABERDEEN, MD — Two people were hospitalized with burn injuries after a fire on Carsins Run Road Sunday morning that was ruled accidental, officials said.

One of the victims had broken into the vacant home in the 1900 block of Carsins Run Road to stay warm Saturday night, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. A male friend later joined her in the early morning hours in the wood-framed home, the fire marshal reported.

At 8:10 a.m. on Sunday, the fire marshal said a candle lit blankets on fire in the living room. The man tried to put out the flames with water but with no water service in the home, they tried to pat it out then broke a back window to escape.

The fire at the single-story mobile home took three fire companies about half an hour to bring under control, according to Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association. Abingdon, Level and Aberdeen firefighters battled the blaze, Gardiner said.

There was $15,000 in damage, the fire marshal said — $10,000 in structural damage, while $5,00 worth of contents were lost.

The woman was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview with second-degree burns, and the fire marshal said the man was taken to Upper Chesapeake with burns to his hands.

Photos courtesy of the Office of the State Fire Marshal.