Three children -- one of them a two-year-old boy -- were hospitalized Sunday after a fire in a Glen Burnie apartment. A 19-year-old woman was also seriously hurt in the same incident, and two adults suffered minor injuries in an altercation at the scene. Lt. Stuart Peters, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, said firefighters were summoned to a top-floor apartment in a complex at 129 Warwickshire Lane shortly after 10:30 a.m. and discovered a small but very smoky fire in a pot on the stove.

The boy was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center with "possibly life-threatening injuries," Peters said. Two girls, one age eight, the other nine, were being treated at the same hospital for minor injuries. The teenager was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center for serious but nonlife threatening injuries. Peters said that a 38-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were treated at Harbor Hospital for minor injuries after they fought outside the apartment. They did not interfere with the firefighters' efforts, Peters said.