Bowie Home Fire Displaces Family

January 23, 2013 10:01 PM

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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL - JANUARY 31: A firetruck departs its firehouse enroute to a call January 31, 2005 in Arlington Heights, Illinois. According to an analysis by The Boston Globe, firefighters are showing an alarming drop in response times to calls and barely over a third of calls nationwide are meeting national standards for response time. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

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LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC)- Two adults and seven children were displaced when a fire damaged a home on the 15500 block of Empress Way in Bowie Wednesday evening.

The Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department said a malfunctioning chimney was the apparent cause of the blaze, which drew about 40 firefighters to the scene but was mostly contained to a single townhouse in the middle of a row of homes.

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