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Silver Spring explosion: Multiple injuries reported in apartment building blast
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Silver Spring explosion: Multiple injuries reported in apartment building blast
By FOX 5 DC Digital Team | Published March 3, 2022 10:49AM | Updated 12:00PM | NewsFOX 5 DC
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Firefighters are responding to a multiple-alarm fire and a possible explosion at a four-story residential apartment building in Silver Spring.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Spokesperson Pete Piringer says the fire occurred at an apartment building on Laytonsville Road. ... Piringer said there are at least five critical injuries -- but no known fatalities -- at this time. ... Piringer added that there have been structural collapses at the building complex.
FOX 5’s Bob Barnard spoke with a person who was in the apartment building and said he heard and felt what appeared to be an explosion.
This is a developing story. Stay with us for updates.
By FOX 5 DC Digital Team | Published March 3, 2022 10:49AM | Updated 12:00PM | NewsFOX 5 DC
SILVER SPRING, Md. - Firefighters are responding to a multiple-alarm fire and a possible explosion at a four-story residential apartment building in Silver Spring.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Spokesperson Pete Piringer says the fire occurred at an apartment building on Laytonsville Road. ... Piringer said there are at least five critical injuries -- but no known fatalities -- at this time. ... Piringer added that there have been structural collapses at the building complex.
FOX 5’s Bob Barnard spoke with a person who was in the apartment building and said he heard and felt what appeared to be an explosion.
This is a developing story. Stay with us for updates.
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Local Crime & Public Safety
Silver Spring apartment explosion sends 10 to hospital, leaves others missing
By Dan Morse, Rebecca Tan and Justin Jouvenal
Yesterday at 11:28 a.m. EST | Updated yesterday at 6:18 p.m. EST
Firefighters at the scene of an explosion at Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring on March 3. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
A massive explosion and fire leveled a Silver Spring-area apartment building Thursday morning, sending 10 people to the hospital and leaving others missing as authorities searched the smoldering rubble. ... Three people were rushed to the hospital in critical condition, while seven others suffered less serious injuries, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Goldstein said several people remained unaccounted for and that K-9s had alerted people might trapped below the collapsed jumble of brick, steel, glass and concrete at the Friendly Garden Apartments.
About 100 people were displaced by the explosion, including 35 in the building that was destroyed in the 2400 block of Lyttonsville Road, Goldstein said. Two other apartment buildings were damaged in the six-building complex and are not safe to inhabit for the time being.
Video captured a thunderous boom at the moment of the explosion, before a plume of smoke and debris shoots skyward. Immediately afterward, chilling screams and wails can be heard from people on the scene. Fire crews and bystanders rushed to rescue a number of people from the billowing flames.
{snip}
Dana Hedgpeth contributed to this report.
By Dan Morse
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Twitter https://twitter.com/morsedan
By Rebecca Tan
Rebecca Tan is a reporter working on the local desk in D.C. She previously reported on foreign policy and international affairs for The Post and Vox.com. Twitter https://twitter.com/rebtanhs
By Justin Jouvenal
Justin Jouvenal covers courts and policing in Fairfax County and across the nation. He joined The Post in 2009. Twitter https://twitter.com/jjouvenal
Silver Spring apartment explosion sends 10 to hospital, leaves others missing
By Dan Morse, Rebecca Tan and Justin Jouvenal
Yesterday at 11:28 a.m. EST | Updated yesterday at 6:18 p.m. EST
Firefighters at the scene of an explosion at Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring on March 3. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
A massive explosion and fire leveled a Silver Spring-area apartment building Thursday morning, sending 10 people to the hospital and leaving others missing as authorities searched the smoldering rubble. ... Three people were rushed to the hospital in critical condition, while seven others suffered less serious injuries, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Goldstein said several people remained unaccounted for and that K-9s had alerted people might trapped below the collapsed jumble of brick, steel, glass and concrete at the Friendly Garden Apartments.
About 100 people were displaced by the explosion, including 35 in the building that was destroyed in the 2400 block of Lyttonsville Road, Goldstein said. Two other apartment buildings were damaged in the six-building complex and are not safe to inhabit for the time being.
Video captured a thunderous boom at the moment of the explosion, before a plume of smoke and debris shoots skyward. Immediately afterward, chilling screams and wails can be heard from people on the scene. Fire crews and bystanders rushed to rescue a number of people from the billowing flames.
{snip}
Dana Hedgpeth contributed to this report.
By Dan Morse
Dan Morse covers courts and crime in Montgomery County. He arrived at the paper in 2005, after reporting stops at the Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun and Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is the author of "The Yoga Store Murder." Twitter https://twitter.com/morsedan
By Rebecca Tan
Rebecca Tan is a reporter working on the local desk in D.C. She previously reported on foreign policy and international affairs for The Post and Vox.com. Twitter https://twitter.com/rebtanhs
By Justin Jouvenal
Justin Jouvenal covers courts and policing in Fairfax County and across the nation. He joined The Post in 2009. Twitter https://twitter.com/jjouvenal
