From the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company:
Just before 6 a.m., Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company and other Baltimore County, MD westside units were alerted to a reported building fire in Pikesville (Fire Box 2-13) in the 1500 block of Reisterstown Road. PVFC Engine 321 arrived with heavy smoke showing from a 1-story building with four commercial occupancies and the officer requested a Working Fire Dispatch. The engine crew dropped a hoseline at a nearby hydrant while PVFC Tower 323 arrived and put the bucket to the building’s roof, followed shortly by the arrival of PVFC Squad 322. The Captain from BCoFD Engine 2 (Pikesville career) assumed command and requested a second alarm as crews were met with heavy smoke showing from the stores – Pizza Man, China King Kitchen, Bressler Cleaners, and Dunkin Donuts. Firefighters made an aggressive attack on the fire, which is believed to have started in an appliance in the Pizza Man restaurant.
No word yet on the status of the kosher Dunkin Donuts in that building, but it would seem likely that they will be closed for a while. The video above, aroudn the 2:05 second mark, shows a brief shot of the Dunkin Donuts which appears to be the least damaged of the stores in that location.
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the clothing in that drycleaners must STINK like smoke. glad we dont use it
Stink? The clothes are probably GONE.
correction. those that aren’t gone, stink.
Unfortunately, we use them and most of our Shabbos/Yuntif clothes were there : (
If you listened to the news broadcasts (it was on all of the networks here), you’d have heard the chief saying that the fire-walls that were installed between the shops worked as intended. There was no (or perhaps very little) fire damage to the other stores in the row. They all filled with smoke and will all need to replace their doors which had to be broken down to gain entry (except DD — their door was already open). So, smoke damage: definitely. Water damage: perhaps some. Burnt in the fire: highly unlikely — unless you were having your clothes cleaned by the Pizza Man.