Baltimore City FF Killed in the Line of Duty ***NEW INFO***

A Baltimore City Firefighter has died of his injuries following a two-alarm fire this morning in Southeast Baltimore. Two other firefighters and two civilians are hospitalized. The firefighter was identified as 40-year-old Allen M. Roberts. Officials say Roberts had been a firefighter for 19 years.

Two other firefighters were injured in the blaze.

The fire was reported about 2:30 a-m in the 500 block of South Macon Street in the Greektown area. Fire Chief Kevin Cartwright says the first units reported heavy fire and smoke coming from a two-story brick row home.

Two occupants jumped from the second floor to escape the flames. Cartwright says they suffered minor injuries. The three firefighters were trapped inside by the partial collapse of the second floor. Cartwright says a rapid intervention
team rescued them within minutes. One of the firefighters has serious injuries and the others have minor burn injuries.

"The fire began to rage in it's intensity and ordered any evacuation of those members...It appeared that the structure might have flashed over...Firefighters made a rapid egress, exit the dwelling. In the interim there was minor entrapment of the firefighters, they were able to get them out within a minute or so." said Cartwright.

All five patients were sent to the Bayview Medical Center. The cause of the fire has not been determined.

Story courtesy of: http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_283062453.html

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