Two people were killed, 2 others injured including a police officer, in a Friday morning house fire

ABERDEEN, Md — Two people are dead, and a 77-year-old man and an Aberdeen Police Officer were hospitalized following a house fire in Aberdeen on Friday morning.

Investigators believe the two people who died were the injured man's wife, 73, and son, 30, a Friday afternoon update said.

Crews were called to the 100 block of Darlington Avenue around 8:15 Friday morning. Oliver Alkire, Master Deputy with the Maryland State Fire Marshal, told reporters Aberdeen Police arrived just before firefighters.

“When officers actually attempted to make it inside, they were fought back by heavy smoke and flames. At that time, the fire department arrived, firefighters made a valiant attempt to go inside and fight that fire.”

A 77-year-old man was also taken to the burn center at Bayview, and an APD officer was taken to a local hospital for smoke inhalation, Alkire said.

"We have reports that there we no working smoke alarms inside the house," Alkire added.

They don't know what caused the fire, but are working on whether it started in the back of the house.

“It’s just one of those things you don’t want to see," Robert Gordon, a neighbor, told WMAR-2 News.

Gordon, also an Aberdeen firefighter, received the alert for the fire on his pager while he was home on Friday morning. The call, he said, came in for his address.

“I jumped up," he said. "My wife’s like, ‘what’s the matter?' I said, ‘we just got alert for a house fire.’ She’s like ‘alright, I’ll see you whenever.’"

"I was like, ‘No, honey, our address,'" Gordon recalled.

Gordon went outside and saw the home, a few houses down from his own, on fire.

"We come out on the front porch and I looked, and, you couldn't see from that house up for the smoke, the smoke column was up, flames were rolling up," Gordon described.

The fire did not spread to adjacent houses, Alkire told reporters Friday morning.