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TERRIFYING WITH PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE THAT HOME. >> I WAS VERY SCARED. REPORTER: IT WAS THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME, THE BOARDING HOME SHE SHARED WITH A DISABLED ROOMMATES ON FIRE, AND PEOPLE TRAPPED. SHE WAS RESCUED FROM HER BASEMENT APARTMENT. >> I WOKE UP TO THE SMOKE DETECTOR AND JUSTIN AND HIS MOM, BRENDA, YELLING FIRE, GET OUT, GET OUT. I GOT BURNED A LITTLE. THE ROOF FELL IN THE FIRE HIT ME HERE. I COULDN’T MOVE, I FROZE. >> OH MY GOODNESS. REPORTER: THIS CELLPHONE VIDEO SHOWS HOW QUICKLY THE FIRE SPREAD. >> ME AND MY SISTER IMMEDIATELY STARTED PRAYING BECAUSE WE KNEW PEOPLE WERE IN THERE. REPORTER: SHANTEL BEST SHOT THE VIDEO AND SAYS IT WAS A VERY CHAOTIC SCENE. >> AFTER A WHILE IT JUST GOT BIGGER AND THEN IT STARTED TO COME BACK AND IT SPILLED OVER TO TWO MORE HOMES AND THEY WERE DRILLING AND EVERYTHING. AT ONE POINT, SOMEBODY JUMPED OUT OF THE WINDOW. REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAY AT AROUND 2:30 A.M. THE FIRE STARTED IN THE UPPER FLOORS OF THIS TOWNHOME AND SPREAD TO TWO NEIGHBORING HOMES. THREE PEOPLE WOULD DIE INSIDE ON THE THIRD FLOOR, AND TWO WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED. A WOMAN RECEIVED BURNS OVER 70% OF HER BODY AND A MAN JUMPED FROM THE 3RD STORY. >> I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE SHE IS GONE. REPORTER: WHILE INVESTIGATORS HAVE NOT RELEASED THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS, BRENDA PARKS-SANDERS TOLD US HER SISTER KIMBERELY ANN SHUPE WAS KILLED. SHE TOLD 11-NEWS SHE HAS THEORIES ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED, BUT FOR NOW WILL JUST MOURN HER SISTER. >> I CRIED MY EYES OUT, I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT. HAD TO FIND OUT FOR MYSELF AND FIND OUT ALL THE INFORMATION I COULD TO FIND OUT IT WAS HER. I REALIZED SHE WAS STILL IN THEIR. -- IN THERE. REPORTER: AS FAR AS THE INVESTIGATION CONSIDERING ANYTHING CRIMINAL RIGHT NOW, THEY SAY THIS HOME WAS NOT ZONED OR LICENSED TO BE A BORDER HOME, BUT THERE WERE NINE DIFFERENT ROOMS IN IT ARE PEOPLE TO STAY, SO THEY WILL BE LOOKING AT THAT CLOSER AND TALKING TO THE LANDLORD ABOUT THAT WITH POSSIBLE CRIMINAL CHARGES PENDING. AS FAR AS A CAUSE OF THE FIRE, IT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION. IF IT DOES TURN OUT TO BE ARSON, THE SHERIFF’S OF

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Three people are dead and two others are injured after a townhome-style apartment caught fire in Edgewood.The fire started around 2:30 a.m. Thursday in the 1800 block of Simons Court, said Emily Witty, spokesperson for the Office of the State Fire Marshal.The The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; State Fire Marshal's Office and the Harford County Sheriff's Office are all investigating. Witnesses described the scene as terrifying and said there are people trapped inside.The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified one of the victims as Dionne Dominique Hill, 32. Cellphone video shows the drama that unfolded."Me and my sister, we just immediately started praying because we knew people were in there," witness Shantel Best said. Best shot the video, and she said she couldn't believe what she was seeing."After a while, the flames got bigger. Lots of people panicking. People everywhere. Firefighters were rushing. Everybody was running at one point. One of the firefighters fell. There was a lot going on," Best said. The fire started in the upper floors of the townhome and spread to two neighboring homes."Prior to the fire starting, I thought I heard arguing. After a couple of minutes, I looked and I saw some orange glowing, and I went to my window and it was flames, I'm hearing glass breaking," witness Robert Glover said. Glover said he saw a man jump from the third floor and heard someone calling for help from the basement."It was a female voice saying, 'Help me. Help me. I'm trapped with animals,'" Glover said. "I was very scared," Bobbi Sue Hodge, who is displaced by the fire, said. Hodge was the person screaming. She said one of her housemates rescued her and her dog just in time."I got woke up to someone yelling, 'Fire. Get out. Get out.' I got burned a little when the roof fell and fire hit me here. I couldn't move. I was froze," Hodge said. Two residents were taken to the hospital with injuries, Witty said. One suffered critical burns to more than 70% of her body and the other broke limbs after jumping from a window to safety, Witty said."I can't believe she's gone," Brenda Parks-Sanders said.While investigators have not released the names of the victims, Brenda Parks-Sanders told 11 News her sister Kimberley Ann Shupe was killed."I can't believe she's gone," Parks-Sanders said.She told 11 News she has theories about what happened, but for now will just mourn her sister."I cried my eyes out. I couldn't believe it. I had to come out here and see it for myself, you know, and find out whatever information I could find out if it really was her. Going to boil down to it she was still in there," Parks-Sanders said. Officials said three additional residents who lived in the basement of the dwelling heard the smoke alarms go off. They, along with a family dog, were able to make it out safely.Officials said nine people live in the home, and one was not in the residence at the time of the fire. Investigators have not released the names of the victims. If the fire is ruled as arson, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said it would lead the investigation.The cause of the fire is under investigation.