Fourteen people are hurt but all residents are accounted for after a powerful explosion and fire ripped through an apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Thursday, officials said in an update Friday. Three people have serious injuries, Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said at a morning news conference.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WRC-TV NBC 4 Washington, D.C.

An explosion and fire at a Silver Spring-area apartment complex on Thursday brought back memories of a fatal explosion in 2016 that killed seven people and displaced nearly 70. Thursday’s explosion and fire happened at Friendly Garden Apartments at 2423 Lyttonsville Road. About a dozen people were injured, including 10 who went to area hospitals.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Bethesda Magazine

Though the township's firefighters union has lost a court battle, it has won a victory in its fight for new safety measures. A state appeals court has thrown cold water on the union's request to seek arbitration on a grievance about manpower levels in the fire department, that arose after a May 2020 apartment building fire that left more than 30 tenants temporarily homeless.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: My Central Jersey - Metered Site

VIDEO: Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo calls the Weaver Fertilizer Plant fire his “career fire.” Just about everyone can point to that one event: the most stressful, challenging, sleep-preventing, on-the-job happening unlike any other. For me, it was the interview I did with the husband of Sandy Bradshaw about a week after Sept.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WGHP-TV FOX 8 Greensboro

VIDEO: A group of FDNY probationary firefighters carried Ukrainian flags among U.S. flags as they ran across Ward’s Island Bridge in New York City on Thursday, March 3, in "a show of solidarity and support for the people and first responders of Ukraine," the FDNY said. Footage shared by the department shows the Ukrainian flag among American flags as the group ran above Harlem River on Thursday.
- PUB DATE: 3/4/2022 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WNYW-TV FOX 5 New York