Crime & Safety
Residents Evacuated Amid Joppa Woods Fire
A fire burned through woods along Dembytown Road Sunday afternoon.
Residents on Dembytown Road in Joppa were being evacuated late Sunday afternoon after a five-alarm fire spread in the woods near their homes.
Approximately 70 volunteer firefighters from Harford and Baltimore counties, as well as firefighters from , responded to the 500 block of Dembytown Road, according to , spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire & EMS Association.
The initial call came at 12:45 p.m., and sirens blared for hours on Easter Sunday. Residents of Dembytown Road were being transported to Joppatowne High School.
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There were no injuries or structural damage reported, Gardiner said.
The acreage consumed by the fire was not known as of 5 p.m., and the fire was not entirely under control.
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The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
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