BALTIMORE– A 5-alarm fire damaged multiple buildings, snarled traffic and caused the light rail to suspend operations for hours Sunday in downtown Baltimore.
Crews responded to a building fire around 9:30 a.m. near the intersection of Lombard and Eutaw streets, just hours before the Orioles hosted a game at nearby Camden Yards. No injuries were reported.
Baltimore City Fire Chief James Wallace said that upwards of five commercial buildings and an apartment sustained “significant damage.”
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“We have some buildings with extensive fire damage,” Wallace said. “We have other buildings where fire was trying to progress and we used a lot of water to stop that progress. There’s significant damage to all of those buildings.”…