Just after 8 am on Sunday June 30, 2024, a motorist on Westminster Pike noticed smoke coming from Full Moon Bar & Grill. A first alarm assignment was alerted for the building fire. Engine 412 arrived to find light smoke showing from the roof line near a neon sign. Crews found a small electrical fire in the soffit area. The fire was quickly extinguished without any extension into the soffit area.

Units: Engine 412, Engine 413, Engine 56, Tanker 56, Engine 19, Engine Tanker 503, Tanker Support 504, Engine 18, Truck 18, Engine 2, Tower 323, Carroll Engine 131, Carroll Engine 92, Carroll Medic 99, Battalion Chief 22.

Just after 5pm on April 25th Carroll County Fire Dispatch alerted units for a chimney fire on Christiana Drive. Engine 412 from Reisterstown, Engine and Tanker 56 from Franklin were alerted on the initial call. Gamber units arrived and found fire showing from the chimney area of the attic. Engine 412 arrived shortly after Gamber units and assisted with extinguishment. Squad 414 was alerted and was assigned to the Rapid Intervention Team. Fire was under control in under 20 minutes. No injuries were reported. Photos courtesy of Gamber VFD.

Very early this morning E413 was alerted for a fire alarm at Reisterstown Lumber. The crew arrived to find one building starting to erupt in fire. The engine called for a fire box and pulled handlines off to begin knock down. In the end the fire went to a second alarm due to the potential with all the lumber and equipment.
The fire was placed under control approximately an hour later and crews remained on scene for overhaul.

On Tuesday July 18, 2023 at 2146 hours we were alerted for a commercial building fire in the auto parts store at Reisterstown Road and Cherry Hill Road. Engine 413, Squad 414, and Engine 412 responded on the first alarm. First arriving Engine 56 found heavy smoke showing from the Advance Auto Parts store in Reisterstown Shopping Center. Engine 56 immediately called for the second alarm.  Crews began an interior attack.

Around 2210 hours a Mayday was called after a ceiling collapsed, trapping a firefighter. The Rapid Intervention Team found the trapped firefighter and assisted them out of the structure.  The firefighter was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. The third alarm was automatically dispatched because of the Mayday. 

The Baltimore County Police Department Fire Investigation Division is investigating the cause of the fire and one individual was taken into custody at the scene of the incident. 

Reisterstown units were on the scene for 5 hours on Tuesday night. Engine 56, Engine 412 and Squad 414 returned Wednesday evening for 6 more hours to put out hot spots in multiple layers of roofing materials. 

Station 41 was dispatched for an MVC of a car into a truck. S414 arrived to find a car had gone under the sign and hit a food truck. Firefighters assessed the patients and vehicles.

Yesterday afternoon Butler Volunteers, Reisterstown and the Baltimore County USAR team were alerted for a horse rescue. A horse had fallen down a slight embankment into a spring and was not able to get up. S414 and two units from Butler arrived and assessed the situation. Given the size of the horse and the need to be careful we awaited the county USAR team as we would have more people and equipment for the rescue. When they arrived we were able to get large straps under the horse’s belly and use a tractor to very carefully lift and pull the horse from the spring. Once it was on more stable ground it was able to get up. The horse was uninjured and walked away to eat some grass.

Just before 1800 hours on Saturday January 14th Engine 412 and Squad 414 were alerted for a dwelling fire in the area of Gwynbrook Ave. and Garrison Forrest Rd. Units from Owings Mills VFC, Garrison, Franklin, Reisterstown VFC, Glyndon VFC, Chestnut Ridge VFC, Randalstown, and Pikesville responded. First arriving units found a dwelling on Forestleigh Dr. with heavy fire through the roof. Reisterstown units operated on this incident for 3 hours. Pictures from Owings Mills VFC.

Just after midnight on December 19th RVFC and surrounding companies were dispatched for a house fire on Bellinger Ct. Engine 412 and Squad 414 were on scene for several hours for extinguishment and overhaul.

Yesterday afternoon Engine 412 and Squad 414 were alerted for a fire in a business on Berrymans Lane in Station 56’s area. Squad 414 arrived immediately behind Engine 56 at an automotive shop and then followed by Engine 413 and many other apparatus from the surrounding area. Squad 414 went to the roof and other crews worked to put the fire out in the shop. Engine 412, Engine 413 and Squad 414 all worked at the fire for approximately an hour.

This afternoon there was a single vehicle MVC on Westminster Pike. A415 and S414 arrived to find the vehicle sitting on the front end right at Westminster Road. The passenger self-extricated; and was taken to the hospital.