Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service units were called to a Germantown house on Tuesday morning after a laptop battery exploded sending pieces of burning metal flying around the living room. According to MCFRS senior spokesman Pete Piringer, units were called to 18928 Fountain Hills Drive in Germantown at 10:45 am after a 911 caller reported that a laptop battery had exploded and caught a sofa on fire. “Units arrived on the scene and found the fire out and evaluated the vict

Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service units were called to a Clarksburg garage for the report of a fire on Wednesday afternoon. According to MCFRS spokesman, firefighters were called to the end-of-row townhouse at 23053 Sweet Spire Drive in Clarksburg at about 2:40 pm on August 10. The small fire was contained to the garage by the sprinkler system of the building. While first arriving units reported, smoke showing from the garage and it was initially believed that there was v

Three young men are dead after a late night crash in the 25300 block of Burnt Hill Road in Clarksburg. The crash occurred at about 11:45 pm on Tuesday, June 8. Montgomery County Police and Fire Rescue units were called to the area of Burnt Hill Road just north of Kingstead Road for the report of a report of a serious single-vehicle collision involving a vehicle that had left the roadway. The preliminary investigation indicates that a black, 1989 Ford F-250 was traveling south

A worker has died after falling from a cell tower this afternoon at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission water treatment plant in Damascus. Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services senior spokesman Pete Piringer confirmed that units were called to the 22700 block of Log House Road in Damascus for the report of a worker falling from a cell phone tower at about 3:00 pm on Monday afternoon. The worker had already succumbed to injuries upon EMS arrival to the scene. Montgom

Montgomery County Fire Marshalls are investigating a fire at a homeless camp behind the Fox Chapel Shopping Center at 19721 Frederick Road, behind the Gold’s Gym. The initial call came in as a brush fire in the wooded area between the rear of the shopping center and Minstrel Tune Drive, in the vicinity of Princess Avenue of the Middlebrook Mobile Home Park. Arriving units reported a fully-involved camp area, which was apparently being used as a shelter by a homeless person or

A fire in a kitchen in an apartment forced the evacuation of dozens of residents at an assisted living facility in Germantown on Thursday afternoon. Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service units responded to the Churchill Senior Living facility at 21000 Father Hurley Boulevard in Germantown shortly before 2:30 pm for a report of a fire in a third-floor apartment. The fire was extinguished by the building’s sprinkler system just before firefighters arrived, and displaced one res

An early morning fire ripped through a house in the Germantown Estates neighborhood of Germantown displacing a family of six early Tuesday morning. Montgomery County Fire Rescue units were called to the two-story, single-family house at 13405 Tilford Court in Germantown shortly before 3:32 am on Tuesday, April 26. According to MCFRS Senior Spokesman Pete Piringer, the fire began on the deck in the rear of the house which sits on the cul-de-sac. The family of six was alerted b

A motorcyclist had to be airlifted to a trauma center after his motorcycle left the road and ended up 50-yards deep into a field in Boyds. Montgomery County Police and Fire Rescue units were called to Darnestown Road, about 4,000 feet west of White Ground Road for the single-vehicle motorcycle crash. Arriving EMS units located the driver and determined he had Priority 2 trauma injuries, which means serious injuries but not immediately endangering the patient’s life. MCFRS req

Montgomery County Police and Fire Rescue Service units were called to the intersection of Clopper Road (MD-117) and Germantown Road (MD-118) on Wednesday morning for a motor vehicle collision involving three vehicles, one of which ended up on its roof. MCFRS units responded to the collision, which happened at about 9:15 am on Wednesday, and found a white Cadillac Escalade overturned in the westbound lanes of Clopper Road. The driver was evaluated by EMS and transported to the

Montgomery County Police and Fire Rescue units were called to the unit block of Climbing Ivy Drive in Germantown for the report of a car that had driven into a backyard. The call came in shortly before 6:30 pm that a vehicle had jumped the curb, and plowed through a wooden fence, struck an HVAC unit out before coming to rest in the backyard of a townhouse on Climbing Ivy Drive, which is just off Great Seneca Highway. According to police sources, the driver had some sort of me

Montgomery County Police and Fire Rescue units were called to the quiet cul-de-sac of Tattershall Place when a contractor’s dump truck flipped on its side between houses on Monday afternoon. Shortly before noon on Monday, April 4 workers were unloading a load of top soil at 14116 Tattershall Place when the load shifted and caused the dump truck to flip on its side between the houses. MCFRS reports that no one was injured, but the driver was transported to a local hospital for

Members of the Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service battled two large brush fires in the UpCounty area on Thursday afternoon. The first fire was reported to MCFRS shortly after 4:00 pm in near the boat rental area in the 20900 block of Lake Ridge Drive in Black Hill Regional Park in Boyds. Smoke from that fire could be seen across Little Seneca Lake as strong winds spread the fire in the dry woodland area of the park. MCFRS called for additional brush units including four-wh