An aggressive fire took over JoAnn Leleck Elementary School Tuesday night in Silver Spring, Maryland, lasting 14 hours. Montgomery County firefighters said that the closed school was in the process of being demolished before the fire broke out at 9 p.

Retirement had to wait for a veteran fire chief who was was active in suppressing a massive blaze that broke out overnight in Montgomery County. A massive two-alarm fire erupted at a vacant Maryland elementary school scheduled to be demolished later this year and replaced with a new building.

Firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at the closed JoAnn Leleck Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Tuesday night.

JoAnn Leleck Elementary School was being demolished to make way for a new, larger building. More than 75 firefighters in Montgomery County battled a large blaze Tuesday night and early Wednesday at a closed elementary school that had been scheduled for demolition, according to the fire department.

After more than eight hours since a fire broke out at the Joann Leleck Elementary School on Tuesday night, crews are still working to extinguish the blaze Wednesday morning. The large fire has caused major damage,