Multi-alarm fire at Maryland building housing Army intelligence group

RAW STORYPublished: Friday October 20, 2006

A blogger has reported that a Fort Meade, Md. compound scorched by a multi-alarm fire houses an Army counterintelligence group. The report has been confirmed by at least one media source, which reports having seen the group's sign outside the building.

The blog, Mia Culpa, quoted information from an article at WJZ.com: "Officials say they do not know why the military building at 4554 Llewellyn Avenue caught fire."

When the blogger googled the address, it pulled up the website of the 902D Military Intelligence Group, nicknamed "The Deuce." The site describes the group as the "US Army's largest Counterintelligence Unit, conducting the full range of CI activities, throughout the spectrum of conflict, and at all echelons, from tactical to strategic."

According to a county fire department spokesman quoted in an article at The Capital, "sixty-nine firefighters started streaming to the scene just after 3 p.m." The fire appears to have burned the upper floors of the building. The only injury report was a minor one to a firefighter, according to the article.

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