NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION

Date: 02/28/2017

Time: 12:06 PM

Location / Address: 505 Blue Ball Road #20, Elkton, Cecil County  

Type of Incident: Building Fire

Description of Structure Property: One-story wood framed commercial building

Owner / Occupants: Colonial Metals Inc.

Injuries or Deaths: Two firefighters sustained chemical burns and were transported by Rising Sun Volunteer Fire Company to Union Hospital in Elkton, Maryland with non-life threatening injuries.

Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $ Unknown Contents: $ Unknown

Smoke Alarm Status: Present with activation

Fire Alarm / SprinklerStatus: Present with activation (Fire alarm only)

Arrests(s): N/A

Primary Responding FireDepartment: Singerly Volunteer Fire Company

# of Alarms:  2   #Of Firefighters: 50

Time to Control: Two hours

Discovered By: Automatic fire alarm

Area of Origin: Interior

Preliminary Cause: Under investigation

Additional Information: Numerous Cecil County, Pennsylvania and Delaware fire departments assisted with extinguishing the blaze. Cecil County Hazardous Materials Response Team and Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) were on scene as well.  

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