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Washington Gas must pay $750K for response to Silver Spring explosion


Seven died in 2016 at Flower Branch Apartments
By Dan Schere |
December 22, 2020 | 6:23 pm
An explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring in August 2016 killed seven and injured nearly 70.
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The Maryland Public Service Commission has ordered the utility Washington Gas to pay $750,000 for not filing progress reports about its effort to replace equipment believed to have caused the fatal 2016 explosion at Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring.
Seven people died and nearly 70 were injured in the explosion on Aug. 10, 2016.
The explosion prompted multiple lawsuits, and a review from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which concluded in 2019. The NTSB determined that the fire started in a vent room when a failure of a mercury service regulator, which was disconnected from a vent line, caused natural gas to enter the room. ....

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