Wildfire at Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area April 4, 2023

Baltimore County fire officials held a press conference providing a detailed description of a wildfire that struck the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area in Owings Mills on Tuesday, April 4, at 3:08 p.m. This report is from the following day, April 5. To view the 15-minute press conference, in which Forestry Service veteran Gilbert Wagner (wearing yellow Nomex), who has overseen prescribed burns at SDNEA for years and is extremely knowledgeable about the habitat, provides insight about how the fire was fought, please click here.