Crime & Safety
Bethesda Apartment Fire Started By Charging Scooter Battery
One child who lived in the apartment was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, a Fire and Rescue representative said.
BETHESDA, MD — One child was taken to the hospital after a scooter that was charging started a fire at a Bethesda apartment building Tuesday morning, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Spokesperson Pete Piringer said on Twitter. The fire was out around 5 a.m.
Piringer said that the scooter's lithium ion battery overheated.
The fire was on the third floor of the building, Piringer said. Two adults and the child from the apartment will be displaced, he said.
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The damage is estimated at about $150,000.
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