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Fire from wood stove sends one to hospital
Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009
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Smoke from a fire originating last Friday night in a Lexington Park home's wood stove caused damages estimated at $75,000, firefighters report, and forced one of its occupants to go to a hospital.
Kila Mills and the other occupant of the Williams Drive residence arrived there shortly before 8 p.m. that day, according to Bay District Volunteer Fire Chief Wayne Johnson. "The house was full of smoke when they came home," Johnson said, as a result of the fire that was in the wall of a one-story addition to the two-story house.
Bay District firefighters from Lexington Park and California were joined by crews from Patuxent River and 7th District. A Lexington Park ambulance crew took Mills to St. Mary's Hospital, the fire chief said, to be treated for minor smoke inhalation.
"He was trying to get the fire out, or get the animals out," the fire chief said. "The dog was at the front door when they came home. They got it out right away. We think the cat [also] ran out the door."
Trailer home burns
State fire investigators report that a wood stove also caused an accidental fire at about 1:30 a.m. on New Year's Eve in the trailer home of Christopher Wilson and Dorothy Ham on Cartwright Road in Leonardtown. Fifty Leonardtown, Hollywood, 2nd District, Bay District and 7th District volunteer firefighters battled the blaze for 30 minutes to bring it under control, the state fire marshal's office reports. Two other trailers at the site also were damaged, and the loss was estimated at $30,000. No injuries occurred, according to a report from the investigation by deputy state fire marshal Jeff Frye. Red Cross volunteers also responded to assist the two displaced occupants.
In a separate matter, Bay District, 7th District and Hollywood firefighters were dispatched shortly after 1 a.m. on New Year's Day to a shed fire off Three Notch Road in California. In addition, county officials report, 911 dispatchers received a call at about 12:30 p.m. on New Year's Day that shrubbery soaked with gasoline next to a home in Golden Beach was on fire. Authorities responding to the scene determined that the fire was out, and had not spread to the two-story residence.
