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Firefighters continue to hose down hot spots on the roof of a new unoccupied apartment building on Upper Rock Circle in Rockville after an early morning fire on Tuesday, .
A massive fire at an apartment complex in Rockville has all but destroyed the building that was expected to open in just three weeks.
Smoke billowed and small fires continued to burn at the building called Gable Upper Rock off of Upper Rock Circle near Shady Grove Road and Choke Cherry Road Tuesday morning. No one was injured in the three-alarm blaze that was reported by a security company at about 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services spokesman Pete Piringer.
The building, called Building G, that included 150 apartment units and an underground garage, was about 90 percent completed, Piringer said.
I would imagine the whole building is a total loss, he said adding there was about 20 feet of water in the underground garage. It is my thinking they will knock the whole thing down and start again.
Water from firefighter hoses poured out of newly constructed balconies as small hot spots still smouldered. Piringer said the fire appears to have started in the roof area and investigators are expected to examine the utility area and HVAC system located there.
The building is deemed unsafe and firefighters have created a collapse zone around its perimeter, according to Piringer.
The building was part of a second phase of the community and was unoccupied, according to Gigi Giannoni, Gables vice president, marketing & public relations. Giannoni could not provide information on the number of units that had already been rented and were waiting for completion to set a move-in date. One-bedroom apartments at the other buildings in the complex rent for about $1,600 a month, according to the companys website
Residents living in two other buildings on the property were forced to shelter in place and had their utilities turned off as a precaution, Piringer said. Residents could not access their cars parked in the garage on the property.
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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire on Shady Grove Road Tuesday morning. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
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WASHINGTON -- A massive fire gutted an apartment building in a dense area of Rockville Tuesday morning.
A large three-alarm fire broke out at Gables Upper Rock Apartments, located at 70 Upper Rock Circle in Rockville at about 4:15 a.m. The fire closed Shady Grove Road between I-270 and Md. 355 for several hours.
The road reopened in both directions by 10:15 a.m.
The apartment building is under construction, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer. The 150-unit apartment building was nearly complete, but no one was living there yet.
Crews controlled the fire by about 6:45 a.m. and no injuries have been reported, Piringer says. Some flames and smoke were visible from nearby I-270 for most of the Tuesday morning commute.
Piringer says when firefighters arrived at the apartment building early Tuesday, they found heavy fire coming from the upper floors of the four-to-five story building. About 200 firefighters responded to the fire, Piringer says.
The fire's cause is not yet known. Investigators are on the scene.
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Massive fire engulfs, damages Montgomery County apartment building (Video)
More than 200 firefighters responded Tuesday morning to a three-alarm fire at an apartment complex that was under construction just off Shady Grove Road in Rockville. There were no reported injuries in the incident.
The blaze was reported to rescuers at 4:15 a.m. and likely burned for awhile before it was detected because no one lived in the garden-style apartments at the Gables Upper Rock complex at 40 Upper Rock Circle, according to Pete Piringer, a spokesman with the Montgomery County Fire Rescue Services department.
When firefighters arrived, they found the fire had broken through to the roof, he said. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but appears to have started in the upper floors, according to Piringer. The buildings were about 90 percent complete and suffered extensive damage, fire officials said, because of water and smoke.
The biggest issue was that it burned a while before it was detected, Piringer said. It was an unoccupied building, and nobody noticed the fire.
Open areas in there lend itself to an intense fire, he said.
Residents lived in at least two nearby buildings, he said, and utilities in those units had to be shut off so firefighters could access the back side of the complex and avoid overhead power lines. Those residents were not evacuated.
It took firefighters an hour to get the blaze under control, and crews would continue to deal with hot spots in the building throughout the day, Piringer said.
The fire caused officials to close Shady Grove Road between Gaither Road and Interstate 270 southbound during the morning commute.
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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire on Shady Grove Road Tuesday morning. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
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WASHINGTON -- A massive fire gutted an apartment building in a dense area of Rockville Tuesday morning.
A large three-alarm fire broke out at Gables Upper Rock Apartments, located at 70 Upper Rock Circle in Rockville at about 4:15 a.m. The fire closed Shady Grove Road between I-270 and Md. 355 for several hours.
The road reopened in both directions by 10:15 a.m.
The apartment building is under construction, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer. The 150-unit apartment building was nearly complete, but no one was living there yet.
Crews controlled the fire by about 6:45 a.m. and no injuries have been reported, Piringer says. Some flames and smoke were visible from nearby I-270 for most of the Tuesday morning commute.
Piringer says when firefighters arrived at the apartment building early Tuesday, they found heavy fire coming from the upper floors of the four-to-five story building. About 200 firefighters responded to the fire, Piringer says.
The fire's cause is not yet known. Investigators are on the scene.
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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire on Shady Grove Road Tuesday morning. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue)
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WASHINGTON -- A massive fire gutted an apartment building in a dense area of Rockville Tuesday morning.
A large three-alarm fire broke out at Gables Upper Rock Apartments, located at 70 Upper Rock Circle in Rockville at about 4:15 a.m. The fire closed Shady Grove Road between I-270 and Md. 355 for several hours.
The road reopened in both directions by 10:15 a.m.
The apartment building is under construction, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesman Pete Piringer. The 150-unit apartment building was nearly complete, but no one was living there yet.
Crews controlled the fire by about 6:45 a.m. and no injuries have been reported, Piringer says. Some flames and smoke were visible from nearby I-270 for most of the Tuesday morning commute.
Piringer says when firefighters arrived at the apartment building early Tuesday, they found heavy fire coming from the upper floors of the four-to-five story building. About 200 firefighters responded to the fire, Piringer says.
The fire's cause is not yet known. Investigators are on the scene.
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Phoenix the cat was found in a garage of a townhouse across the street from the $50m complex which burned to the ground Tuesday.
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Houston firefighters continued to douse hot spots Wednesday morning, the day after a five-alarm inferno consumed an apartment complex under construction near downtown.
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From the Magnolia Cemetery of Houston firefighters battled a large 5-alarm blaze Tuesday afternoon at an apartment building under construction on West Dallas near Montrose Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Houston. Flames engulfed the apartment complex as 200 firefighters in 80 units fought to gain an upper hand on the blaze. The five-story, 368-unit building was destroyed. No injuries were reported.
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Firefighters battled a large 5-alarm blaze Tuesday afternoon at an apartment building under construction on West Dallas near Montrose Tuesday, March 25, 2014, in Houston. Flames engulfed the apartment complex as 200 firefighters in 80 units fought to gain an upper hand on the blaze. The five-story, 368-unit building was destroyed. No injuries were reported.
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