Two-alarm fires damage homes

A trio of two-alarm fires in less than 24 hours kept county firefighters busy yesterday afternoon and this morning.

The fires left four adults without homes. But firefighters were able to save an 80-year-old farmhouse and several barns threatened by one of the blazes, said Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia, a county Fire Department spokesman.

The latest blaze began at 7 a.m. today in the Harness Creek community on the Annapolis Neck Peninsula.

Firefighters were called to the 3100 block of Raven Court, where they found a single-family home with heavy flames showing from the front right-hand corner, Tobia said. Crews...