Apartment Building, Residential Gaithersburg, MD – Residential sprinkler system contains kitchen fire in first floor apartment June 24, 2017 viking210 Firefighters responded to two fires in Gaithersburg Wednesday, one in a townhouse and another in a three-story apartment building, according to rescue officials. A teenager suffered nonlife-threatening injuries in an apartment fire on McCausland Place, while there were no injuries in the townhouse fire on Autumn Hill Way, said Pete Piringer, Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service spokesman. The Autumn Hill Way fire broke out in a second-floor bedroom at about 9:30 a.m., according to Piringer. About 60 firefighters arrived on the scene and extinguished the bulk of the fire by 9:45 a.m. Several adjoining townhouses were evacuated and a few people were displaced. The blaze caused about $80,000 in damage. At about 2:30 p.m., firefighters came to McCausland Place to investigate smoke coming from an apartment building, Piringer said. They discovered that there had been a kitchen fire on the first floor and that the residential sprinkler system had helped to control the flames. A teen was transported to the hospital. The fire caused about $10,000 in damage. The cause of both fires is under investigation, according to Piringer.
