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1 seriously injured, 21 displaced in Prince George’s Co. apartment complex fire

Red lights of a fire engine. Night time. Fire engine. Extinguishing the fire. Close-up of the red lights on top of a fire engine.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Igor Vershinsky)

Multiple people are displaced and one person is in the hospital following a fire at a Prince George’s County, Maryland, apartment complex early Sunday morning.

in the 8500 block of Greenbelt Road in Greenbelt. A tweet from the Prince George’s County Fire Department said the flames were put out by 7:15 a.m.



Twenty-one people from the three-story apartment complex were displaced from the fire. One adult was removed from the fire and taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, a spokesperson told Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø.

Fire officials said crews arrived to find smoke pouring out of the apartment’s second floor.

Firefighters are still working to figure out what caused the blaze.

See a map of the location of the fire below:

Lauren Hamilton

Lauren Hamilton is an Associate Producer at Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø and a graduate of the University of Maryland. She enjoys covering the intersection of arts, culture and social justice in local communities. She began as an intern with Âé¶¹¹ÙÍø in the summer of 2021.

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