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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu May 15, 2025, 06:35 PM May 2025

2-year-old survives 15-story fall from Silver Spring [Maryland] apartment building balcony [View all]

Source: WTOP

2-year-old survives 15-story fall from Silver Spring apartment building balcony

Ciara Wells ciara.wells@wtop.com
May 15, 2025, 6:21 PM

A 2-year-old boy fell off a 15th-floor balcony at an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Thursday and miraculously survived.

Around 2 p.m., Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service personnel responded to an apartment building in the 11200 block of Oak Leaf Drive for reports of a child falling.

The boy had fallen into the bushes below and was transported to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.

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Ciara Wells
Ciara Wells is the Evening Digital Editor at WTOP. She is a graduate of American University where she studied journalism and Spanish. Before joining WTOP, she was the opinion team editor at a student publication and a content specialist at an HBCU in Detroit.
ciara.wells@wtop.com

Read more: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2025/05/2-year-old-survives-15-story-fall-from-silver-spring-apartment-building-balcony/



Hat tip, channel 4 in DC over the air, but the story is not on their website yet.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/
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