When I got home last night, I saw a Twitter post from someone (I forget who right now) saying they lived close to the Riverdale power plant in Dundalk. The post was in response to the following item posted around 8 p.m. to Twitter by a breaking news service called @BreakingNewsOn:

Emergency official tells us there is a 3 alarm fire at the Riverside Power Plant in Dundalk, Maryland; HazMat on scene; at least 1 injured.

There were no other updates posted and I have not found a single word mentioning it on any Baltimore TV, radio or newspaper website last night or this morning so far. Do you live in the area? Do you work for BG&E/Constellation? What’s the deal with the fire and why the lack of coverage?

I found a link on Riverdale last night that appeared to be an official Constellation one with info on the plant saying it was between the Key Bridge and Marine Terminal in Dundalk. My google-fu is failing me this morning – I can’t find any evidence of such a website existing.

I did just find a rather recent update posted on the Sun website within the past couple of hours:

Baltimore County firefighters spent three hours last night battling a three-alarm blaze that broke out at Constellation Energy’s Riverside Power Plant along the Patapsco River. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries and were treated at the scene of the fire, in the 4000 block of Broening Highway in Dundalk, a spokesman said. Fire investigators were trying to determine the cause of the fire last night, though a company spokesman said it was electrical in nature. The fire started just after 7 p.m. and was brought under control about 10 p.m. About 75 firefighters from Baltimore City and Baltimore County responded. Kevin Thornton, a spokesman for Constellation Energy, said that immediately after the fire broke out, three employees inside the building shut off power to the facility. The shutdown did not affect power customers of Baltimore Gas and Electric, Constellation’s subsidiary. The facility, a “peaker” plant that provides additional power during times of peak demand for electricity, has been in operation for more than half a century.