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On Thursday night, February 16, 2017, Baltimore City firefighters battled their second multiple alarm warehouse fire of the week. Shortly before 9 pm, Car 42, the Baltimore City Police Arson Unit, was headed northbound on Interstate 83 when he called in a “verbal alarm” for heavy fire and smoke showing from a warehouse in the city’s Woodberry community. Box Alarm 21-71 was struck, and upon arrival units confirmed heavy fire in a 3-story vacant warehouse in the 1700 block of Union Avenue under the West 41st Street bridge and adjacent to the MTA Light Rail tracks. Command quickly struck a 2nd alarm on arrival, and firefighters placed multiple handlines and ladder pipes in service on Union Avenue, the train tracks, and the bridge above. BCFD Water Tower 1 was also utilized to attack the fire from above, and several apparatus were also positioned on Interstate 83 southbound, which was closed to traffic at Cold Spring Lane. The fire eventually grew to 4 alarms and was burning well into Friday morning.