At
1:30
PM,
Monday,
January
21,
2008,
a
resident
of
an
apartment
building
notified
911
that
there
was
smoke
in
her
apartment
building
hallway.
A
full
assignment
of
seven
fire/EMS
stations
were
dispatched
to
5461
Madison
Way
in
Bladensburg
to
investigate
the
report.
Bladensburg
Fire/EMS
Station
809
was
dispatched
as
the
first
arriving
engine
company
and
was
en
route
with
a
crew
of 5
firefighters.
Just
blocks
from
their
station,
as
they
negotiated
a
turn
from
Edmonston
Road
onto
Annapolis
Road,
a
firefighter
fell
from
the
moving
fire
engine/pumper.
The
firefighter,
an
adult
male
in
his
20’s,
sustained
“serious”
non-life
threatening
injuries
and
was
transported
by
paramedics
to a
nearby
trauma
center
where
he
is
being
evaluated.
There
were
no
other
vehicles
involved
in
this
incident.
The
incident
to
which
Bladensburg
Fire/EMS
Station
809
was
responding
to
was
handled
by
other
fire/EMS
units
and
determined
to
be a
malicious
discharge
of a
dry
chemical
extinguisher
by a
group
of
juveniles.
The
citizen
that
notified
911
thought
the
product
was
smoke
and
with
all
good
intention
notified
911.
