There were no injuries after lightning struck the roof of an Alexandria home on Wednesday night (July 9).
The Alexandria Fire Department was notified at around 6:40 p.m. by the homeowner that the roof of their two-level townhouse was smoking, according to dispatches. Inside, firefighters found and extinguished smoke and fire in the attic.
No injuries were reported after a townhouse fire in Old Town North Monday morning (June 16).
The Alexandria Fire Department was called at around 3:30 a.m. by neighbors of the two-level home in the 1000 block of Vernon Street. AFD saw white smoke billowing from the rear of the home, and found difficulty gaining entry due to “hoarding conditions,” according to AFD dispatches.
A balcony fire at an apartment building in the West End was quickly extinguished Monday morning (May 26), and no injuries were reported.
The Alexandria Fire Department responded to 203 Yoakum Parkway at around 7:45 a.m. to find a fire showing from a fourth-floor apartment balcony. The two occupants inside the apartment were unharmed, and the fire was contained to the balcony, according to AFD dispatches.
No serious injuries were reported after the management office for the Fairlington Villages condo association caught fire Wednesday afternoon.
Alexandria Fire Department and Arlington firefighters responded around 2 p.m. to a report of a building on fire at 3001 S. Abingdon Street, near Abingdon Elementary School in the Fairlington neighborhood, according to ARLnow. Fairlington Village manages dozens of buildings and about 1,700 townhome and apartments on nearly 100 acres in Alexandria and Arlington. Two firefighters were treated for non-life threatening injuries at the scene.
Two commercial trucks were destroyed, and no one was injured in a fire this morning in Alexandria’s West End.
The Alexandria Fire Department was called to the 100 block of S. Early Street at around 3:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning (April 16). No injuries were reported, although two box trucks were engulfed in flames, according to dispatch reports.
Welcome to Friday in Alexandria. What a week we’ve been having.
To start things off, ALXnow broke the story of an Alexandria Police Department’s arson and burglary investigation after Sunday morning’s (March 30) shopping center fire that shuttered multiple businesses in the 5200 block of Duke Street.
The Alexandria Police Department is investigating last Sunday morning’s fire, which affected multiple businesses in the 5200 block of Duke Street, as a commercial robbery and arson.
As previously reported, multiple businesses were affected when the fire started at Diko Bar & Hookah Lounge (5243 Duke Street).
A faulty point of sale (POS) system is the cause of the November fire that destroyed three businesses in the heart of Old Town, one of the business owner’s tells ALXnow.
No one was injured in the Nov. 17 blaze at 103. S. St. Asaph Street, but it shut down three local businesses — Friends to Lovers Bookstore, Madam Coco — Emporium and Everything Chocolate and the Little Birdies kids boutique.
There were no injuries after an apartment fire in Alexandria’s West End early Monday morning (Dec. 23).
The fire in the three-story apartment complex was called in at around 12:15 a.m., according to dispatch.
One person is dead after a fire at a homeless encampment near Holmes Run Park in Alexandria’s West End.
The Alexandria Fire Department discovered the fire under an overpass in the 4600 block of Duke Street, near the entrance to Holmes Run Park and the Shoppes at Foxchase. The Friday night fire was reported at around 10:45 p.m. by a resident in a nearby apartment building, according to AFD dispatches.
A man was injured in a food truck fire in Arlandria on Tuesday night (Nov. 19).
The food truck was parked outside the AutoZone Auto Parts at 3705 Mount Vernon Avenue when the fire was reported at around 9:30 p.m.
