UPDATE: 1 Dead in Edgewood Fire

UPDATE (12:25 a.m.)—One person was pronounced dead at the scene as Harford County firefighters battled a blaze in an Edgewood townhouse early Friday evening.

The Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company confirmed the death in an email to Patch just after 11 p.m. Friday. Explore Harford cited a State Fire Marshal's report that a 5-year-old boy had died.

Initial reports indicated that two people were trapped inside a middle-of-group townhome in the Harford Square development, according to Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association spokesman Rich Gardiner.

Gardiner posted on the association's Facebook page that crews from Joppa, Abingdon and Aberdeen Proving Ground responded to a fire at the residence on the K Court in the 1400 block of Charlestown Drive, off Harford Square Dr.

More than 40 volunteers and four career firefighters from APG were on the scene, according to a release from Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company. That statement indicated Kingsville Volunteer Fire Company also responded.

Maryland State Police Homicide Division and the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office are investigating the blaze.

Stay with Patch for updates.