A 57-year-old Owings Mills man died in Reisterstown when a spark ignited gasoline vapors in a trailer owned by GK Enterprise Landscape Co., Baltimore County Police said.
Police identified the landscape contractor as George Louis Kelley of the unit block of Montrose Avenue, Owings Mill. He died at the scene Thursday.
Fire Department crews arrived at the 300 block of Bonnie Meadow Circle in Reisterstown around 10:12 a.m. and found a 23-foot vehicle trailer fully engulfed in flames, police said. Witnesses said they saw Kelley walk into the trailer just before it erupted in flames. He did not come out and firefighters found his body after the fire was extinguished.
A 100-gallon gasoline tank had been installed at the front passenger side of the 23-foot trailer, police investigators said. Kelley was trying to connect a fuel tank pump to a lawnmower battery to start the pump, when a spark ignited the vapors causing the fire to start, police said.
–Nicholas Shelly