A fire on a stretch of York Road in Cockeysville that led to a significant building collapse and damaged multiple businesses has been contained, the Baltimore County Fire Department said about 7 p.m. Wednesday.
More than 100 firefighters worked to put the fire out in the 10800 block of York Road, a shopping area known as Antique Row. The fire department was dispatched just before 3 p.m.
Photos showed smoke coming out of the Sass Resale Boutique, a consignment shop at 10866 York Road, and a neighboring computer repair business. The building they shared eventually collapsed.
No injuries were reported, the fire department said.
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Baltimore County Police closed York Road between Warren Road and Wight Avenue for a time to allow crews to fight the fire.
On an already hazy day due to the Canadian wildfires, smoke billowed off the building and into the sky.
Katie Moran, a massage therapist in the Integrative Wellness Center, sat on the side of the road across from her business, watching.
Moran’s practice is just south of the Khalje Oriental Rug Gallery, feet away from the collapse. The center hadn’t caught fire, but water drenched its roof, and Moran said she’s sure there will be damage from that and the smoke.
Moran was coming back from her lunch break when she saw the smoke and firetrucks.
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She was shaking and really scared, she said. She drove as far as she could toward the business, and then ran the rest of the way.
She said she had a panic attack and had to be pulled into an ambulance.
“This is devastating for our career,” said Moran, whose mother runs a physical therapy practice in the center.
The center’s business is based off appointments, and it uses income from those appointments to pay its monthly rent.
“I’m not sure how this is going to play out,” she said.
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