Firefighters Make Dramatic Apartment Rescue In Adelphi (Update)

Updated at 7:25 p.m.

ADELPHI, MD — Prince George’s County firefighters pulled residents out of a burning apartment building Wednesday evening, according to local media reports.

Fire department spokesman Mark Brady said a two-alarm fire in the 9200 block of New Hampshire Avenue was mostly extinguished after a 30-minute firefight. Firefighters using ladder trucks rescued several people from balconies.

Two residents of the apartment where the fire originated were taken to an area hospital burn unit with non-life-threatening burn injuries.

A firefighter was also taken to a burn unit with smoke inhalation injuries.

NBC Washington reported that the fire in a six-story apartment building at the location in Adelphi appeared to start in one unit and quickly spread to the others.

Footage taken from a news helicopter showed firefighters on the sixth floor pulling residents out of the burning building.

The top floor of the apartment was “fully involved” in the fire, WTOP reported.

»Photo of Adelphi apartment fire, courtesy of Mark Brady, spokesman, Prince George’s County Fire Department