6 hospitalized following apartment fire in downtown Silver Spring – WTOP News

At the least six individuals, one in vital situation, had been taken to a hospital Saturday morning after a three-alarm fireplace broke out at an condominium constructing in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Montgomery County Hearth & Rescue crews responded to the scene on the Arrive Silver Spring condominium complicated round 6 a.m., based on spokesman Pete Piringer.

Firefighters had been in a position to put out the flames on the seventh flooring of the excessive rise, however heavy smoke remained all through the constructing.

“They had been confronted with a variety of chaos,” Piringer instructed WTOP’s Stetson Miller on the scene. “They’d a big fireplace on the seventh flooring [with] heavy, thick black smoke and warmth.”

Crews helped evacuate residents out of the constructing, together with some that had been trapped on balconies.

“We had been on the balcony of our neighbor’s condominium making an attempt to be as additional away from the hearth as we might. We couldn’t get down the steps as a result of there’s simply an excessive amount of smoke,” one resident instructed  Miller.

Six individuals had been transported to a hospital with one in vital situation. Two firefighters, of the 100 that responded to the hearth, have sustained non-life-threating accidents and are receiving remedy.

The fireplace has been put out however police and firefighters stay on the scene.

Beneath is the realm the place the hearth broke out:

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WTOP’s Matt Small, Ciara Wells, and Stetson Miller contributed to this report.

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