Date: Monday, April 18, 2022
Time: 9:35 p.m.
Location/Address: 891 Holly Drive W., Annapolis, MD 21409
Type of Incident: Structural Collapse
Description of Structure/Property: Two-story, single-family home.
Injuries or Deaths: A male occupant, believed to be in his 40's, was declared deceased on the scene. A 45-year-old female was rescued and transported to Shock Trauma with life-threatening injuries. Three others were treated and released by medics on-scene, including one juvenile patient.
Assisting Fire Departments: Annapolis Fire Department, Fort Meade Fire and Emergency Services
Other Assisting agencies: Anne Arundel County Police, Baltimore Gas and Electric
Number of Responding Firefighters: 47
Additional Information: Firefighters responded to a report of a tree that had fallen into a home with occupants trapped. They arrived and found a large oak tree had fallen into the house, causing extensive structural damage, especially in the area of a second-floor bedroom.
Five occupants were reported to have been in the home at the time of the incident. Two adult occupants were able to self-rescue prior to the fire department's arrival. The other three occupants were trapped in an upstairs bedroom that had sustained significant structural damage. Two of the trapped occupants were rescued by fire department personnel, including a juvenile and an adult female in her 40s. The juvenile was treated by medics on the scene and released, the adult female was transported to Shock Trauma with life-threatening injuries. The third occupant trapped was a male in his 40s who was pronounced deceased on the scene.
Special Operations Collapse Rescue Team members stabilized the area and extricated all occupants in about one hour and 30 minutes. The adult male victim was declared deceased at the scene.