Seventeen people were hospitalized and three fire fighters were injured following an early fire at an apartment building in downtown Silver Spring, Md.
Seventeen people were hospitalized and three fire fighters were injured in the early morning incidentMontgomery County firefighters respond to a fire on the seventh floor of an apartment building in Silver Spring, Md., early Saturday morning. Seventeen people were hospitalized — two of them in critical condition — three firefighters injured and more than 1,000 others displaced after a fire early Saturday morning at a high-rise apartment building in downtown Silver Spring, Md.
Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County’s fire and rescue service, said when firefighters arrived they encountered thick black smoke in the building. Several residents were unable to escape because the smoke made it difficult for them to make their way out of the building, he said. Some fled to their balconies and waited to be rescued.
In all, more than a hundred firefighters responded to the three-alarm blaze, Piringer said. He said some residents took shelter in the Doubletree Hotel across the street from the apartment building. Montgomery County Executive that the Coffield Recreation Center in Silver Spring is being used as a reception center to help residents of the building.Midmorning on Saturday, Georgia Avenue south of Spring Street was still closed off. A few firetrucks were parked in front of the apartment building. An alarm in the multistory brick structure was still ringing as firefighters pulled a large hose from the building.
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