Updated (3:44 p.m.)—Firefighters worked Tuesday morning to battle a blaze at a single-family home in Arnold.
The two-alarm fire started just before 7 a.m. at the home at 1089 Deep Creek Ave., according to Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Lt. Jack Beall. Initially, the fire was contained to the lower story of the home.
The fire was under control by about 8 a.m. after more than 50 firefighters responded to the scene from Anne Arundel County, Annapolis and Naval Academy fire departments.
Another fire department spokesman, Division Chief Keith Swindle, said two residents escaped the house and were unhurt. They are receiving assistance from the Red Cross.
The home suffered an estimated $100,000 in damages. The exact cause of the fire remains under investigation, Swindle said.
About ten years ago there was a fire in a dwelling near the bay bridge near the end of a dead end road - somewhere around 30 firetrucks arrived from as far as Annapolis, Kent Island, and Erleigh Heights - I think there were more than a dozen fire houses represented in all. It was a fairly small fire, confined to the top floor of an unfinished dwelling, so why did they call that many trucks? The only guess we had was water accessibility - the fire was out of range of the nearest fire hydrant, and so they initially used a relay of pumper trucks from about a half mile up the road while they ran fire hoses between multiple pumper trucks to extend the hydrant to where it was needed. The extra crew were mostly helping set up access to the hydrant.