September 5, 2008
Fireworks cause blaze at house
An Odenton house sustained extensive fire damage Saturday, the result of a 12-year-old boy playing with fireworks, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department said.
Shortly before noon, the boy was lighting fireworks in the second-floor bedroom of his home in the 500 block of Meadow Mist Way when sparks set the contents of the room on fire, said the spokesman, Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia.
Tobia said the boy doused the flames with water and then left the room, thinking the fire was out. Several minutes later, the fire reignited and spread from the bedroom to most of the house, Tobia said.
He said the boy, his five siblings and his parents fled the burning house without injury.
Firefighters from several stations brought the fire under control in about an hour and that damage was estimated at $100,000.
Tobia said the American Red Cross was assisting the family.
Richard Irwin
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