One Person Dead After House Fire on Duvall Avenue in Northeast Baltimore

Thirty-five minutes after Baltimore City firefighters were dispatched to the 3900 block of Duvall Avenue, the blaze was contained. By then, a juvenile found inside the home was already on the way to a hospital, where the child was later pronounced dead.

The death marked the second fire fatality Baltimore City Fire Department has recorded this year.

Crews received the call at about 8:02 a.m. on March 29 and arrived to find smoke conditions, classifying the response as a one-alarm fire. During a primary search, firefighters found the juvenile in cardiac arrest inside the residence and began life-saving measures at the scene before transporting the patient. The fire was out by 8:37 a.m., and no fire personnel were injured. The victim's age was not released by fire officials. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The Duvall Avenue death came weeks after a juvenile died March 7 in a fire on Mosher Street in West Baltimore. Maryland recorded 46 fire-related deaths in 2025, up from 45 the year before, with smoking materials the leading cause according to U.S. Fire Administration data. Fatal fires in Baltimore City dropped 50 percent in 2025, a figure city officials attributed to weekly neighborhood sweeps targeting at-risk residents.

The Baltimore City Fire Department, which handles more than 235,000 calls per year, offers free smoke alarm requests through its website at baltimorecity.gov. Anyone with information about the Duvall Avenue fire can contact Baltimore police or the department directly through the same site.