Crime & Safety

Fire on Route 1 at Ducketts Lane

Officials said the cause has not been determined.


Firefighters extinguished a blaze on Washington Boulevard at Ducketts Lane Friday evening, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

"It was a big pile of rubble next to a shed," said Battalion Chief Eric Proctor of what caught fire. "They [fire crews] cleared out relatively quickly...[in] 30, maybe 40 minutes."

The fire, which was reported after 10 p.m. by a passerby in Elkridge, was out by 11 p.m., said Proctor.

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There was nobody around at the scene of the fire, the cause of which officials have yet to determine.


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