Jessup Home Damaged By Late Night Fire

JESSUP, MD — Emergency responders with Howard County Department of Fire & Rescue Services were dispatched to a home in the 7300 block of Cedar Avenue for a report of a house fire. At approximately 10:23 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters and paramedics arrived within four minutes of receiving the 911 call and found a fire on the back side of the single-family home.

With assistance from the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, the fire was extinguished quickly. Three adults and one child were inside the home at the time of the fire, but safely evacuated. No firefighters were injured. Fire investigators from the HCDFRS Office of the Fire Marshal are working to determine the origin and cause of the blaze. Damage estimates are pending.