Firefighters urge safe driving amid busy holiday season [Video]

BALTIMORE COUNTY — The White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company may have the highest call volume in the county, but bad weather last week kept them busier than usual.

Rachael Klein, director of public relations, described last Wednesday into Thursday as “chaotic.”

“Unfortunately, sometimes you have a car accident and because we’re working on the scene with that car accident and you get the backup of traffic then another car accident will happen in the near vicinity,” she said.

The first reported crash took place on Philadelphia Road at White Marsh Boulevard at 6:15 a.m.

Then, a crash on Pulaski Highway at Middle River Road was reported several hours later.

From there, the calls just kept on coming over the next 24 hours. The company responded to nine total crashes, nearly half on I-95.

On Thursday, there were three additional wrecks on that same stretch of highway, culminating in a fiery …