Overview
- Deputy State Fire Marshals opened an arson investigation after separate fires burned buildings at 1121 and 1123 2nd Street in Sykesville.
- Firefighters from the Sykesville Freedom District and nearby companies responded to the hospital grounds and put out both blazes.
- Officials said the two structures were vacant properties on the Springfield Hospital Center campus managed by the Maryland Department of Health.
- The Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal asked anyone with information to call 410-386-3050.
- Springfield Hospital Center is a long-running state psychiatric hospital that includes facilities listed on the National Register of Historic Places.