Crime & Safety
Rescuers Respond to Kitchen Fire at Bethesda Apartment Building
Woman transported to the hospital with burns.
A woman was transported to the hospital after a Monday evening kitchen fire at a Bethesda apartment building, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.
Rescuers responded to 4857 Battery Lane shortly before 9p.m., according to Assistant Chief Scott Graham, a Fire and Rescue spokesman. Firefighers found a grease fire on a stove in one of the units and quickly extinguished the flames, Graham said.
A woman suffered minor burns and was transported to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, Graham said.
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Battery Lane was closed to traffic near Woodmont Avenue as rescuers responded to the fire.
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