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Montgomery Co. executive hails COVID resilience, cites new goals in annual address 04/15/2022 05:20am • Last year, Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich offered a state of the county address in an online video presentation. This year, Elrich held his annual assessment of the county's outlook in person at the Silver Spring Civic Building. More Montgomery County News Donations help Silver Spring apartment explosion victims find new housing 03/28/2022 04:47pm • It's been more than three weeks since over 150 residents were displaced by the massive blast and fire at the Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland. Now the next steps are finding affordable housing for many of them. It's been more than three weeks since over 150 residents were di Fund started for 80-year-old woman displaced by Friendly Garden explosion 03/09/2022 05:30pm • Blanche Hall is one of the people who survived the explosion that destroyed part of the Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, and left 41 families without homes. The 80-year-old Hall said she can't forget the sound of the blast from her second floor apartment. It blew her door of Condado Montgomery hace disponible centro de servicio para desalojados tras explosión en Silver Spring 03/08/2022 06:24pm • El condado de Montgomery ha hecho disponible un centro de servicio de emergencia a familias afectadas por la tragedia en el complejo de apartamentos Friendly Garden en Silver Spring, Maryland. Además, a casi una semana de la explosión que dejó a cientos sin un hogar, las autoridades de Montgom Explosion, fire at Maryland apartment complex ruled accident 03/07/2022 07:42pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — An explosion and fire that destroyed a Maryland apartment building last week was accidental and caused by a maintenance worker who cut a gas line instead of a waste pipe, an official said Monday. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services Chief Scott Goldstein said his Silver Spring blast came after maintenance worker cut wrong pipe; ruled accidental 03/07/2022 04:55pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, officials say the Silver Spring apartment blast that injured 14 people last week came after a maintenance worker trying to unclog a drain cut a gas pipe instead of a waste pipe, and the incident will be classified as an accident. During a news conference Monday aftern Error humano habría causado explosión en edificio de Silver Spring 03/07/2022 04:32pm • WASHINGTON – Tras cuatro días de investigaciones, los bomberos del condado Montgomery creen que han dado con la causa de la explosión que destruyó un edificio en Silver Spring, Maryland, el jueves pasado. Un trabajador de mantenimiento cortó accidentalmente una tubería de gas, creyendo qu Red Cross assists 100 affected by Silver Spring apartment explosion 03/06/2022 09:06pm • Work continued over the weekend to help about 100 people who lost their homes to an explosion in Silver Spring, Maryland, that happened Thursday. The Red Cross held an informational meeting Sunday, so affected residents of the Friendly Garden Apartments could learn about available resources and t About half rehoused after Silver Spring explosion 03/05/2022 08:01pm • Canine searches of the rubble turned up no indication of human remains after two different dogs had both zeroed in on the same spot the previous two days. (Courtesy Pete Piringer/Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service) Roughly half of the 200 residents displaced by Thursday's explosion that Silver Spring explosion: Investigators find cut gas line; search of rubble continues 03/04/2022 10:00pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (left) and Fire Chief Scott Goldstein address reporters the day after an explosion and fire at the Friendly Garden Apartments. (WTOP/Valerie Bonk) Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, said all residents of the Friendly Garden Apartments have been acco Fire chief: Cut gas pipe found in basement after explosion 03/04/2022 06:00pm • SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Investigators have found a cut gas pipe in the basement of a Maryland four-story apartment building destroyed by an explosion and fire, but investigators are working multiple theories on the cause, a fire official said Friday. It is possible a maintence worker who was wor Hallan tubería de gas rota tras explosión en complejo de Silver Spring 03/04/2022 07:43am • WASHINGTON – Todos los residentes del complejo de Silver Spring, Maryland, en el que se registró una poderosa explosión e incendio la mañana del jueves han sido localizados, informaron las autoridades este viernes.  Unas 14 personas fueron hospitalizadas tras el siniestro en el People unaccounted for, 10 hospitalized in Silver Spring apartment building fire, collapse 03/04/2022 02:38am • Ten people have been taken to hospitals, several people are still unaccounted for, and three buildings have been declared unsafe after an explosion, fire and building collapse in Montgomery County, Maryland, Thursday morning. Crews put up security fencing around the perimeter and crews will r 'Shook it like an earthquake:' Witnesses, residents describe Montgomery Co. apartment fire 03/03/2022 10:59pm • "I thought it was like a dream," Holly Tezera, 13, said, describing how she and her family got out after a fire ripped through their Montgomery County, Maryland, apartment building Thursday morning. Ten people have been taken to local hospitals, several others are still unaccounted for, and t How to help residents of Silver Spring apartment fire 03/03/2022 10:35pm • A partially melted child's toy is seen as firefighters work the scene after an explosion and fire caused an apartment building to collapse in Silver Spring, Md., Thursday, March, 3, 2022. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service reports that multiple people were critically hurt in the fire that st