Joppa House Fire Causes $50K in Damage: Fire Company

A weekend house fire in Joppa caused by unattended cooking resulted in $50,000 in damage, according to the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company, which said the blaze affected two homes.

At 1:56 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 12, crews were dispatched to the 100 block of Kenyon Court in Joppa, where fire had broken out in a two-story duplex, the fire company reported.

A resident who had been cooking on the stove left the kitchen for four to five minutes and went upstairs when she started to smell smoke, the report said. She returned to find the kitchen was ablaze, according to the report. There were no working smoke alarms in the home, the report said.

Forty firefighters—from Joppa-Magnolia, Bel Air, Abingdon, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Kingsville and White Marsh—responded to the incident, bringing the fire under control in 20 minutes, according to the report.

There was minor damage to the adjacent home, the report said.

Photo Credit: Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company.