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Three Fires in One Day All Ruled Arson
NORTH BEACH (May 1, 2005) --- Maryland State Fire Marshals were called to the scenes of three different fires set across Calvert County on Wednesday and have ruled all three to be set fires.
According to investigations conducted by Deputy Fire Marshal Howard Ewing, fires which took place at 12:06 am at home at 8929 Erie Ave. in North Beach; at 3:43 am at Stinnett’s Restaurant on Bayside Road in Chesapeake Beach; and a fire set at the outside of the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Maryland, located at 9201 Dayton Ave. in North Beach at 5:30 pm.
The fire to the home owned by Mary Day on Erie Ave. caused an estimated $5,000 damage, the fire at Stinnett’s caused $50,000 in damage and the fire at the Boys and Girls Club caused $2,000 in damage.
The Stinnett’s fire was the largest and was responded to as a two-alarm fire by North Beach, Dunkirk, Huntingtown, Prince Frederick, the Navy at Ches. Beach; Harwood-Lothian; Avalon Shores and Deale fire departments with a total of 65 firefighters.