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== Summary ==
The remains of the old B&O YMCA, the morning after the fire that destroyed the historic structure on November 7, 1980.

The fire was caused by a spark in the electrical system that ignited in the cloth insulation of the basement walls and quickly spread throughout the building.

(Photo courtesy of Deans Nomadica via the The Original Brunswick, MD Group)

Dorothy M. Van Steinburg: My Mom was working there the night of the fire.

Randy Derflinger: Fought that fire, saw it glowing from the top of Bells Mill Hill on my way home from work that night.

Rick OBrien: Was there on truck 42

Leonard Kesner: Was there on engine 71 never been in and out of a unsafe building so many times

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