Monday, July 16, 2012
Fire spokesman: Derwood incident was one of several around the county early Saturday.
A driver lost control of the car he was driving and flipped on top of a parked car in a driveway in Derwood about 2 a.m. Saturday morning, according to an eyewitness who captured photos of the aftermath of the accident. The crash occurred at Muncaster Mill Road and Heatherford Court. A county fire and rescue spokesman confirmed that a vehicle overturned at the intersection, but had few other details. The incident was one of several accidents around the county in the early morning hours of Saturday, said Assistant Chief Scott Graham of the county fire and rescue service. Gretchen Kingan, who lives near the scene of the incident, took the photos above and sent the following email to Rockville Patch: Driver lost control of car flew into and…
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Assistant Chief Graham: Family was out-of-town; arson remains in play.
Firefighters weighed the risks before entering a Derwood home to fight a fire early Saturday morning, a fire and rescue service spokesman said Tuesday. A firefighter was injured when he fell through the floor of the home in the 6000 block of Muncaster Mill Road. “It was purely accidental,” Assistant Chief Scott Graham said. The ranch-style home was “dark and smoky” and the firefighter stepped around a barrier and into a hole in the first floor that had been marked, Graham said. The firefighter was treated and released from a hospital on Saturday and is receiving “orthopedic-related” follow-up treatment, Graham said. No one was in the home at the time of the fire. The family that lives there was out-of-town, Graham said. Dispatchers …
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
A firefighter fell through a hole in the floor while trying to put out a fire.
A firefighter was injured while working to put out a fire in a ranch-style home in the 6000 block of Muncaster Mill Road Saturday morning, said Assistant Chief Scott Graham of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service. Traffic cameras first alerted dispatchers to the fire—when they noticed smoke coming from the Derwood home. The county fire service was called at around 5:30 a.m. When units arrived on the scene, they found a basement fire that had burned through the first floor, creating a hole. While extinguishing the fire, a firefighter fell through the floor and was extricated from the basement by firefighters working in the basement, according to Graham. The firefighter has minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital for …
Monday, January 3, 2011
MCPS students might be involved, fire and rescue and school officials say; injuries not life-threatening
Update, 4:17 p.m., Monday, Jan. 3: The four occupants of a car that hit a tree along Muncaster Mill Road on Monday afternoon were Col. Zadok Magruder High School students who were returning from classes at the Thomas Edison High School of Technology, said Cpl. Dan Friz, a county police spokesman. Edison is co-located on the Wheaton High School campus in Silver Spring. The injuries were "pretty minor" and the students were alert and conscious when help arrived, Friz said. They were taken to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda for precaution, he said. Police informed Magruder High officials of the incident. The school was expected to send an alert about the incident to parents and students via the school's internal email list serve, Friz said. A …
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3:11 pm on Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Assistant Chief Scott Graham addressed the decision to enter the home in this update: http://patch.com/A-thv5 more ›