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Burning House on Waterloo Road is Training

Howard County fire officials plan to burn down house on Tuesday.

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Fire on Waterloo Road next to Waterloo Elementary Dan Peoples

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Fire on Waterloo Road next to Waterloo Elementary

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Black smoke billows into the sky behind the former Donna's Columbia location, as seen from the Dunkin Donuts / McDonald's parking lot at MD-108 Waterloo Rd. & Snowden River Pkwy.

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House engulfed. Shrubs are blocking the many spectators and fire trucks on the scene, but you can see an aerial ladder to the left of the black smoke, top right corner of the pointy evergreen tree.

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If you see a house engulfed by flames near the Maryland School for the Deaf on Tuesday, it is probably firefighters doing training.

The Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services tweeted from its official Twitter account that it would be burning a Waterloo Road house down on July 10.

@HCDFRS at 3:01 p.m. via TweetDeck
yfrog.com/nuzt8cqhj #HCDFRS is doing a #training burn in the 5900 blk of Waterloo Rd in #Elkridge. House will burn down Tues 7/10.

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Elizabeth Janney

4:15 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Thanks so much to Dan Peoples, Leighann Seidelman and Amy Pickwick for adding their pictures to the article. Wow! Great shots, guys!!! Thank you for sharing them.

TR

7:20 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Thank goodness this was training. I rode by the screen this morning and the fire seemed to be out of control.

Richard Stevens

7:56 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012

I thought there was a water shortage?

Elizabeth Janney

7:57 pm on Tuesday, July 10, 2012

We've asked public officials to comment on the timing of the training and water shortage. Stay tuned!

If your house is on fire, do you not want them to come and put it out?! These training exercises are what enabled these brave men and women to be able to save people's houses and lives. When a training opportunity presents itself, they need to take advantage.

Dave A.

1:43 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

This training was essential to our firefighters. The amount of water used was less then. Kemal on a real emergency. The window of opportunity to train in a real environment is. Dry short with these houses as the property owners have time constraints on developing the land and the FD has to work around the weather as the personnel training are on duty as to not incur an overtime expense. Those windows were in line the other day and that is why it occurred when it did.

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