BALTIMORE - Baltimore City Fire is on the scene of a three-alarm fire in the 3000 block of Keswick Road. At this time, all involved and surrounding units have been evacuated and there are no preliminary reports of injuries. The department is asking residents and motorists to avoid the area while they work to place the fire under control.

Firefighters responded to a five-alarm fire in Hampden. Multiple units were affected and all residents were evacuated in the 3000 block of Keswick. The fire has since been extinguished. The fire initially started as a three-alarm fire but was upgraded to five-alarm, according to fire officials at the scene.

Crews were kept busy overnight battling a reported five-alarm fire that impacted nearly a dozen homes in Baltimore, officials say. Some residents were evacuated early on Tuesday morning after a blaze broke out in the 3400 block of Keswick Road in Hampden that spread to multiple rowhomes in the area.