7th Floor Fire Extinguished At Columbia Towers; No One Injured: MCFRS

SILVER SPRING, MD —Montgomery County Fire and Rescue personnel were on the scene around 1:13 p.m., on Sunday, for the report of an apartment fire at Columbia Towers at 12001 Old Columbia Pike in Silver Spring.

A second alarm was issued, bringing additional units to the scene of the fire, according to MCFRS.

After extinguishing the fire in an apartment on the seventh floor, firefighters conducted a search and found no one trapped or injured. In fact, no residents or firefighters required medical assistance, according to a MCFRS social media post.

MCFRS reported some units below the apartment where the fire was location suffered water damage.