"This is about Compassionate Response, not Legal Status."

County Executive Ike Leggett was joined by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (Maryland, 3rd District) at the Long Branch Community Recreation Center in Silver Spring near the site of the August-10 Flower Branch Apartments fire.

Leggett and Cardin received a briefing from first-responder and other agency leadership echelons and then heard from several victims of the fire in order to personally address their concerns.