At least 10 people — including four children — were taken to the hospital Wednesday following an explosion at an apartment complex in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
At least 10 people — including four children — were taken to the hospital Wednesday following an explosion at an apartment complex in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and two others were treated at the scene, a county fire official said.
Two of the adults injured were in critical condition, said Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein during a news conference about the explosion at the complex on Quince Orchard Boulevard. Firefighters at the scene of a fire caused by an explosion at a Gaithersburg, Maryland, apartment building on November 16, 2022.Emergency responders received reports of the explosion at the complex shortly after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Goldstein said, and there was still an active fire in one of the buildings as of 10:30 a.m. Responders were working with the utility to get the gas shut off, he said. Goldstein said residents had told him a gas leak had been repaired last week.
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