Around 9 p.m. Thursday, Tori Huster went downstairs to watch “Scandal.” Tiffany Weimer was in her upstairs bedroom, watching old episodes of “30 Rock” on her laptop and breaking in a new pair of soccer shoes.
In four days, they would report to Washington Spirit training camp at Maryland SoccerPlex ahead of the National Women’s Soccer League season. For a second year, Huster and Weimer were to live with the Eckerstrom family, which has hosted a half-dozen players since 2013.
On an otherwise ordinary night in Boyds, a bedroom community in Montgomery County, smoke detectors wailed on Aspen Dale Court.