Thursday, May 2, 2013
The volunteer firefighter who was was critically injured during the April 24 fire in Reisterstown died Thursday at Maryland Shock Trauma. His funeral is set for Sunday.
It was a horrific fire April 24 that the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company was called to control. Volunteer firefighter Gene Kirchner, 25, and several others were searching the home at 19 Hanover Rd., trying to find a resident because "very, very agitated residents were screaming that someone was trapped," Baltimore County Fire Chief John Hohman said during a press conference Thursday afternoon. "Gene and others, they attempted to rescue the individual," Hohman said, calling the fire "horrific." Kirchner, a nine-year veteran of the company, died on Thursday at Maryland Shock Trauma after spending eight days in critical condition. "Gene himself ended up being rescued from the second floor by his co-volunteers here at Reisterstown and two …
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The 25-year-old is the second fatality from a house fire April 24 at 19 Hanover Road in Reisterstown.
UPDATE (2:30 p.m.)--Volunteer Firefighter Gene Kirchner died Thursday afternoon at Maryland Shock Trauma, according to the Baltimore County Fire Department. The member of the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire company was critically injured April 24 while doing a search during a house fire at 19 Hanover Rd in Reisterstown. "It is with deep sorrow and regret that the Reisterstown Volunteer Fire Company announces the line of duty passing of Firefighter Gene Kirchner," according to a statement from the fire company. "Gene succumbed to his injures after an 8-day fight." Gene was a 9-year member of the fire company, and was a junior firefighter for 2 years, it states. "A full fire department funeral will be scheduled." A 58-year-old resident died …
Toni Torsch lost her son Daniel to drugs two and a half years ago. She has since worked to make sure families don't suffer the same nightmare.
Perry Hall resident Toni Torsch struggles every day knowing she can’t bring her son back, but she takes some solace that a new Maryland law might prevent another mother from experiencing her nightmare. “I thought maybe it was his heart.” “He was being healthy, going to the gym.” “I thought it might’ve been the supplements that he was taking.” Her son Daniel Torsch had been clean and sober for nine months. Surely it couldn’t have been the heroin that forced paramedics into Toni’s home on that cold December day back in 2010. “I was trying to make deals with the devil at that point,” she recalled thinking to herself as she watched medics trying to revive her son. A week later, an autopsy report confirmed her worst fear. Her son Daniel—24 …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Below are links to obituaries as listed by several funeral homes in Baltimore County.
Click on the name of the deceased to read the full obituary and/or to submit online condolences. Sterling Ashton Schwab Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Incorporated (Catonsville) Location: 1630 Edmondson Ave, Catonsville Phone: 410-744-8600 Thomas Shea Flynn died April 23. He was 81. Eleanor Lentz died April 22. Michael Anthony Trieber died April 21. He was 20. Selma E. Niemann died April 19. She was 88. John S. “Steve” Brown died April 19. He was 61. Frances E. Malat of Catonsville died April 19. She was 91. Craig Witzke Funeral Care (Catonsville) Location: 9 Newburg Ave, Catonsville Phone: 443-830-0310 No new obituaries listed at this time. Sol Levinson & Bros. Funeral Home (Pikesville) Location: 8900 Reisterstown Road …
Thursday, April 25, 2013
The Dundalk native and Perry Hall resident owned a commercial window-washing company in Dundalk.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
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Friday, March 29, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Friday, March 22, 2013
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Tim
11:21 am on Friday, May 3, 2013
Not much more to add here to this. My condolences to family and friends of this brave young man. more ›