CORRECTED*NR-4/16/22-Carroll Co-Fatal House Fire-Roop Road, Taneytown https://t.co/bhS5PyQYoh

Carroll County Times, Westminster, Md.

Apr. 18—A two-alarm Taneytown house fire killed a woman and displaced seven others over the weekend, according to a statement by the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.

Deputies from the fire marshal and the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office say the Taneytown Volunteer Fire Department and area fire departments arrived at the house in the 2700 block of Roop Road around 11:35 a.m. Saturday. It took 90 minutes for 40 firefighters to get the two-alarm fire under control, according to the statement.

Lt. Jon Harman of the Harney Volunteer Fire Company responded to the scene around 11:45 a.m. He said fire companies from Union Bridge, Pleasant Valley, New Windsor and Westminster assisted Taneytown firefighters in extinguishing the blaze.

“The whole house was fully engulfed when I got there and it was a decent-sized house — there was fire pretty much blowing out of every window of the structure and all of our operations were fighting the fire from outside,” Harman said.

Inside the house, officials discovered the remains of a deceased occupant, who was later identified as Jan I. Williams, 57 of Taneytown. She was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore to determine the cause of death, according to the statement.

“Unfortunately, because of the amount of fire, we were unable to enter the structure at all during any time of the firefighting — I knew pretty much from the get-go that the resident [who] was still inside was not going to be able to make it out alive,” Harman said.

Officials say the fire caused an estimated $200,000 worth of damage and displaced seven occupants. One male occupant was transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, according to Harman.

“He put his arm threw a window or something to try to get out from the fire,” Harman said. The house was divided into a front and back section, each of which was rented by a different group of people. The renters in the back section were not home at the time of the fire, he said.

No working smoke alarms were found in the home, which was owned by Keith Warner, according to fire investigators. The State Fire Marshal and the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office are conducting an investigation to determine the origin and cause of the fire.

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