All residents accounted for after Md. apartment explosion

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A Maryland fire chief says all known residents of an apartment building are accounted for after an explosion and fire. Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein said Friday that officials now know that 14 people went to hospitals after Thursday’s explosion at the Friendly Garden Apartments in Silver Spring, just north of Washington, D.C. He says three people are in serious condition. Goldstein says a maintenance worker was in the building at the time of the explosion. He says investigators are looking at whether the work led to the explosion, among other theories. Goldstein says about 230 residents were displaced overnight.