4-Year-Old Boy Falls From Apartment Building

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- Montgomery County authorities say a boy who fell about 30 feet from the window of a Silver Spring apartment building has suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Assistant Fire Chief Scott Graham says officials were called to the building on Schuyler Road about 3:30 p.m. Monday for a child who had fallen from the building. Graham says officials found the boy at the rear of the building.

He says the 4-year-old boy was conscious and taken to a hospital for treatment.

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