Thursday, November 15, 2012
Karen Diener, 59, died after a fire blazed through her Reisterstown home early Wednesday morning.
A Reisterstown woman is dead after a two-alarm fire gutted part of her home early Wednesday morning. Karen Diener, 59, died Wednesday morning at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, according to a statement released by Baltimore County Police late Thursday afternoon. “It’s the kind of thing you never really see coming,” said Lee Hallett, a neighbor and childhood friend of Alex Diener, Karen’s son. Fire fighters were called to Diener’s home at 20 Blake Court at 1 a.m. Wednesday and found heavy fire on the first and second floors. Diener had suffered burns to 50 percent of her body and was taken to Northwest Hospital. She was later transferred to Johns Hopkins Bayview, where she was pronounced dead later that morning. The two-alarm fire was…
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A Reisterstown home was gutted in an early morning blaze that started around 1 a.m. Wednesday. A woman in her 60s was sent to Northwest Hospital for burns on 50 percent of her body. She was transferred to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, according to Northwest spokesman Noel Lloyd. A spokeswoman at Bayview said her condition was not available Wednesday afternoon. Crews were called to 20 Blake Court at 1 a.m. and found heavy fire on the first and second floors of a single-family home. The fire, which escalated to a second alarm, was placed under control at 2:23 a.m. by a total of about 15 fire companies and 60 personnel. The cause is under investigation, a press release said.
An early morning fire in Reisterstown sent a woman in her 60s to the hospital Wednesday.
A woman was hospitalized for burns after an early morning fire at a home in Reisterstown Wednesday. Crews were called to 20 Blake Court at 1 a.m. and found heavy fire on the first and second floors of a single-family home. There was a female in her 60s on the second floor, who had suffered burns to 50 percent of her body. The woman, who was not identified by name, was taken to Northwest Hospital, according to a Baltimore County press release. The fire, which escalated to a second alarm, was placed under control at 2:23 a.m. by a total of about 15 fire companies and 60 personnel. The cause is under investigation, the release said.
Karen Schwartz
11:13 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
Blessings on the woman and all the brave firemen who did their best to save her. more ›