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Feb 27, 2023

These Gaithersburg Families Lost Their Homes. Three Months Later, They Don’t Know Where To Turn For Help.

Families displaced after an explosion destroyed the Potomac Oaks Condominium have struggled to find affordable housing.

Apr 14, 2020

D.C. Residents Heard A Loud Boom In Northwest Last Night. The City Doesn’t Know What It Was

The thundering sound occurred shortly after 10:30 p.m., according to reports on Twitter.

Apr 23, 2019

Before Fatal Silver Spring Apartment Explosion, Residents Had Complained Of Gas Smell

Federal investigators have discovered part of the cause of a 2016 explosion that killed seven people and injured dozens more.

Aug 15, 2016

Update: Police Have Recovered Six Bodies From Silver Spring Apartment Fire

Police also found that one person who was on their list of missing people is alive. He was not in the building at the time of the fire.

Aug 11, 2016

Update: Two People Dead, Several Still Missing After Fire, Explosion At Silver Spring Apartments

Officials have taken dozens of people to hospitals, and nearly one hundred residents are displaced from the Flower Branch Apartments.

Oct 28, 2014

Space Station Supply Rocket Antares Explodes Seconds After Launch

The rocket was unmanned.

Sep 26, 2011

Chemical Explosion Injures University of Maryland Students

Prince George’s County emergency crews responded to the Chemistry Building at the University of Maryland this afternoon after an explosion injured two female students.

Jun 08, 2011

Don’t Panic, But Here’s A Video Of The Sun Exploding

Our resident astronomy expert is out for the week, so you’ll have to depend on the government for the technical explanation of what this huge explosion on the sun actually means. (It involves a Solar Radiation Storm and CME-driven shock, both of which sound, uh, kind of terrifying.)

Jan 11, 2011

Car Explodes in Residential Arlington Neighborhood

ARLnow.com reports that a white BMW exploded in the Penrose neighborhood of Arlington around 8:15 a.m. this morning. The vehicle was parked around several homes, but as ARLnow points out, there are a pair of large apartment high-rises and the headquarters for the Department of Defense’s Defense Information Systems Agency is only a couple of blocks away from the explosion site. Police reportedly have a “person of interest” in custody; a search for additional explosives…

Jan 07, 2011

Army Corps of Engineers To Blow Up Munitions At Sibley

Spring Valley is one of the city’s most striking neighborhoods, replete with beautiful residences, spacious tree-lined avenues and planned munitions detonations which will be exploding eight to ten times a day over the next week. That’s right, upper Northwesterners: the Army will soon be blowing some stuff up within earshot of your idyllic neighborhoods.

 
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