Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County firefighters were busy on Wednesday evening as severe thunderstorms rolled across the area and lightning lit up the sky for about two hours. In the city of Gaithersburg, a lightning strike ignited a fire that destroyed a single family house in the Washingtonian Woods community. During the stormy weather, there were reports of […]

UPDATED A Gaithersburg family is displaced from their Washingtonian Woods home after a lightning bolt ignited a fire at the three-level house Wednesday evening, according to a Montgomery County fire official. Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said the Sept. 7th blaze occurred around 6 p.m. in the 200 block of Midsummer Drive, and it […]