BALTIMORE — A Baltimore apartment building was evacuated early Friday morning.
The Baltimore Fire Department responded to the Brewers Hill apartment building to investigate a water leak.
Officials say the rooftop pool was leaking and compromising the integrity of the building. As a result, residents were evacuated.
“A pool that’s a rooftop pool that buckled up approximately about four feet on one side of it,” said Baltimore City Fire Battalion Chief James Beebe, “At that point, we were concerned about structural issues so we evacuated the area beneath that. We also evacuated a building on the side of it on that side.”
As residents looked on, many wondered what may have caused the pool to give way, but few questioned the order to evacuate.
“The last thing that I would have wanted was for them to think that it would just be fine to try to deal with it and my family be inside and the whole building come down and lose them,” said Brittany Lawson as she looked on with her two dogs, Barkley and Ellie.
The apartment building went up in 2020 and got an occupancy and use permit the same year.
We've reached out to the property management company and the apartment complex for a statement, but we haven't heard back yet.
At 3 p.m. on Friday, the fire department gave the all clear, allowing residents to return to their apartments.
