The Baltimore City Fire Department hosted a multi-agency Fire Safety Neighborhood Sweep Saturday morning, days after a fatal fire claimed the lives of three people, including two children.
City leaders went door to door as part of a fire safety initiative in and around the 3400 block of East Lombard Street in southeast Baltimore.
“A raging fire claimed the lives of three of our Baltimore family members. One family member being lost in a fire is too much, but three is just hard to wrap your mind around,” City Fire spokesman Kevin Cartwright said. “We (knocked) on doors, offering to install free smoke alarms, basic home fire safety inspections, as well as providing a literature to help them know how to keep themselves safe from the dangers of residential structure fires.”
Cartwright said the home where the fatal Highlandtown fire began, did not have working smoke detectors.
“We don’t have to have this happen in our city. We want every single family, every single household, to have a fire safety plan,” said Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott. “But also, everyone in Baltimore should have a working smoke detector because we will give it to you for free.”
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