The Arundel Burning website is dedicated to the history of fire fighting and companion fire protection efforts in Anne Arundel County, Maryland and its neighboring jurisdictions.

The mission of Arundel Burning is to present fire fighting history through books, articles, pictures, video and other sources of information.

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• Tru Fit Clothing Store Fire (Baltimore City)
   • Baltimore Sun: 6 Firemen Killed Here
   • Tru Fit Clothing Store Fire Anniversary Booklet

Arundel Park 3D provides a computer generated graphic of the building based on information from the offical reports. There is also an operations map that indicates where the various responding apparatus were located and positioned that evening. By clicking the individual apparatus boxes at the bottom of the map, a picture of the unit appears.

On the night of the fire, Mr. Ralph Yenger, a volunteer with the Brooklyn Fire Department and an amateur movie fan, captured some of the early fire on 16mm film. It's less then 2 minutes and a little under exposed, however it provides the viewer with some insight into the heavy fire spread and the size of the facility. Mr. Yenger stands some distance away in front of the building panning from left (eastside) to right (westside). Towards the end of the film you can actually see the cross members of one of the huge truss assemblies (westside) as the built up tar paper/felt covered roof burns away.

There is now information about the tragic Tru Fit Clothing Store Fire on the site. The tragic fire occurred in Baltimore City in February 1955.

Division Chief Donald Heinbuch, BCFD, was kind enough to provide two documents about the fire. The first, a four page article by Chief Heinbuch entitlted "Trufit Clothing Company Fire - 50th Anniversary, and the second, BCFD Official Anniversary Booklet which contains pictures and a three page article by V.B. Morris. Both documents can be found in the articles section.