Landscaping Trailer Bursts Into Flames, Owings Mills Man Killed

REISTERSTOWN, MD — An Owings Mills man died when his landscaping trailer caught fire Thursday, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. Officials said the trailer erupted into flames after a spark ignited gasoline vapors inside the vehicle.

George Louis Kelley, 57, of the unit block of Montrose Avenue, was pronounced deceased at the scene, according to authorities.

Firefighters said they found the trailer engulfed in flames when they were called to the 300 block of Bonnie Meadow Circle near Reisterstown at 10:12 a.m. on Thursday, April 25.

Witnesses saw Kelley go in the 23-foot trailer before the fire and not come out, according to the fire department, whose personnel located him after the blaze had been extinguished.

Kelley was a contractor for landscape company GK Enterprise Landscape Co., which was cutting grass in the community, authorities reported.

Based on the investigation, officials said Kelley was trying to connect a lawnmower battery to energize a 100-gallon gasoline tank that was installed in the passenger side of the trailer. When he tried to connect the two, a spark ignited gasoline vapors, causing the inferno.