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Video above courtesy of Antuane Breeden taken immediately after an explosion in East Baltimore Wednesday afternoon that left a young child dead and injured another child and two adults.
Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun:
A young child walking home from school was killed Wednesday when an East Baltimore rowhouse that neighbors said exploded caught fire, sending rubble into the street and plumes of thick, black smoke over the area.
Three other people, including two adults who were in the house and another child outside, were taken to area hospitals with serious injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening. The home in the 400 block of N. Lakewood Ave. was destroyed — a wall crumbled and two floors collapsed.
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Baltimore fire crews combing the rubble found the body of the child, who did not live at the residence but was in the vicinity of the home, said Ian Brennan, a Fire Department spokesman. The other child ran to William Paca Elementary School after the incident before being taken to the hospital, Brennan said.
A child is killed and three others injured in a rowhouse fire that caused part of the building to collapse. It happened just as elementary students were walking home from school. Brave bystanders helped firefighters tear through debris before a body was found underneath.
Cell phone video shows residents frantically digging through piles of bricks on North Lakewood Avenue after they describe hearing an explosion that killed one person and sent a rowhome up in flames Wednesday.
“It was a school-aged child that we found beneath the rubble outside the house,” said Ian Brennan.
