Edgewood House Explosion: One Hospitalized, Fire Marshal Says

Bel Air MD

10 October, 2021

11:22 PM

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EDGEWOOD, MD — One person was hospitalized after an explosion in Edgewood Sunday night. At 9:19 p.m., Harford County emergency personnel said they were called to the 2500 block of Thornberry Drive for a reported explosion with house fire. Firefighters arrived at 9:26 p.m. to find a single-family home engulfed in flames and two adjacent homes ablaze, according to Jenn Chenworth, spokesperson for the Harford County Volunteer Fire and EMS Association. Crews from Harford and Baltimore counties responded, led by crews from the Abingdon Fire Company, she said. One person who had been inside the home at the time of the explosion was hospitalized in critical condition, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The person was able to get out without assistance, investigators reported. The Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company took the victim to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, the fire marshal reported. While the houses on either side of the explosion were damaged, nobody inside those residences was injured, officials said. Investigators expect to be at the scene throughout the night. This is breaking news. Get the latest from Aberdeen, Bel Air, Fallston and Havre de Grace Patch.