Abell neighborhood resident Lisa Scotti puts out a new Pride flag after her flag was set on fire early Thursday morning. A charred flag staff (left) was the extent of her damage but several homes across the street from her were heavily burned in the same incident. The neighborhood has come together with dozens more houses hanging Pride flags following a fire that damaged four houses on E 31st Street. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

Neighborhood displays their Pride following fire

Jun 17, 2022 at 2:58 pm
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A day after an arsonist torched three rowhomes, one of which had an LGBTQ pride flag hanging on its porch, residents of Baltimore’s Abell and Charles Village neighborhoods gathered Thursday evening to pick up pride flags and flagpoles.

Abell neighborhood

Abell neighborhood resident Lisa Scotti puts out a new Pride flag after her flag was set on fire early Thursday morning. A charred flag staff (left) was the extent of her damage but several homes across the street from her were heavily burned in the same incident. The neighborhood has come together with dozens more houses hanging Pride flags following a fire that damaged four houses on E 31st Street. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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Abell neighborhood resident Sherry Fennimore takes photos of Pride decorations that now adorn front porches of four houses damaged in a fire on E 31st Street Wednesday morning. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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Abell neighborhood resident Sherry Fennimore takes photos of Pride decorations that now adorn front porches of four houses damaged in a fire on E 31st Street Wednesday morning. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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Pride flags and a rainbow unicorn now adorn front porches of four houses damaged in a suspicious fire on E 31st Street Wednesday morning. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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The Abell neighborhood has come together with dozens of houses now displaying Pride flags following a fire that damaged four houses on E 31st Street. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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Pride flags now adorn front porches of four houses damaged in a suspicious fire on E 31st Street Wednesday morning. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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E 31st Street fire

Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison talks with concerned neighborhood residents following an early morning fire on in the 300-block of E 31 Street that put three people in the hospital and is being investigated as a criminal act. T (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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E 31st Street fire

The burned remains of a Pride flag are seen across East 31st Street from an early morning fire that put three people in the hospital Wednesday. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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E 31st Street fire

Fire investigators look through debris for evidence following an early morning fire that put three people in the hospital Wednesday. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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E 31st Street fire

Fire investigators look through debris for evidence following an early morning fire that put three people in the hospital Wednesday. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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E 31st Street fire

A Pride flag was set ablaze overnight on this pole in the 300-block of E. 31st Street in the Abel neighborhood. A fire across the street damaged four homes and put three people in the hospital Wednesday. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

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