100 Firefighters Battle Apartment Fire, Minor Injuries Reported

By Local Patch Editors Greg Cohen and Laura L. Thornton

Update, 11 p.m., June 25:

Six people were rescued from the apartment fire on Club House Road in Montgomery Village Tuesday evening via ladders, and two firefighters and three building occupants were taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the latest tweet posted by Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service Assistant Chief Scott Graham.

Original post, 7:15 p.m., June 25:

More than 100 firefighters responded to an apartment fire in the 19300 block of Club House Road, Montgomery Village, on Tuesday evening, the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service reported.

By 8:10 p.m., the bulk of the fire was out, MCFRS spokesperson Beth Anne Nesselt said. Two firefighters and two building occupants were taken to a local hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries, MCFRS Assistant Chief Scott Graham tweeted.

When the first batch of rescue workers arrived at the scene shortly before 7:30 p.m., smoke and fire had spread throughout the building and had extended through the roof. Additional rescue workers were needed, Nesselt said.

The “crews performed an aggressive interior attack, and firefighters have performed multiple rescues,” Nesselt told Patch.

As of 8:15 p.m., the “initial, unconfirmed information” was that the fire had begun on the second floor and had spread throughout the building, Nesselt said.