Two-alarm blaze displaces family

FORT MEADE - A family of five was displaced Sunday afternoon in a two-alarm fire.

Firefighters from Fort George G. Meade responded to a fire in one of the units in a row of five townhouses in the 5000 block of Stewart Court at about 12:15 p.m., said Mary Doyle, an Army spokeswoman.

A battalion chief, four engines, a ladder truck and two fire investigators with the county Fire Department assisted, said Division Chief Michael Cox, a county Fire Department spokesman.

It took firefighters about an hour to control the fire, Doyle said.

The five townhouses were evacuated...