Friendly Garden Apartment Explosion

The Red Cross is helping people who were displaced after last week’s explosion and fire at the Friendly Garden Apartments.

A building maintenance worker accidentally cut a gas line at the Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment complex that exploded and burned on Thursday, officials said in an update Monday.  Investigators believe that accident led to the blast but say they do not expect to be able to identify “the exact source of ignition,” Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said...

Montgomery County’s fire chief says crews found a cut gas line in the basement of the building that blew up in Silver Spring. News4’s Jackie Bensen has new details about what was happening in a basement utility room just before the blast.

News4’s Aimee Cho talks with residents of Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring who returned to the remains of their homes that blew up in an explosion.

Officials are still not saying exactly what caused the blast at the Friendly Garden Apartments, but the fire chief did say they discovered a cut gas line. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

All residents of the Silver Spring apartment building where a stunning explosion and fire leveled homes on Thursday are accounted for. News4’s Juliana Valencia has a live update a day later.

Firefighters are set to search through the rubble of a Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment complex where an explosion and fire Thursday destroyed homes, leaving three people seriously injured, dozens displaced and several people missing.

Several people remain unaccounted for after an apartment building exploded, sending 10 victims to the hospital – three with serious injuries. News4’s Jackie Bensen and Shomari Stone report.

A March 3 fire and explosion devastated the Friendly Garden Apartments on Lyttonsville Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, causing serious injuries, displacing residents, and destroying multiple apartments. Many residents evacuated from their homes carrying very little or nothing. You can donate to provide relief to these families as they stabilize and try to move forward. Funds are needed for transportation, clothing,…

A man describes his son rescuing multiple people, including a child and a woman with burns, after an explosion and fire destroyed apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland.