Crime & Safety
Fire Extinguished At Apartment Complex East Of Fairfax City
Fire crews from both Fairfax City and Fairfax County extinguished a burning sofa Tuesday morning inside an apartment building.
FAIRFAX, VA — Fire and rescue crews from the Fairfax Volunteer Fire Department and Fairfax County's Merrifield station extinguished a sofa fire Tuesday morning at an apartment complex east of the city.
Fire units were dispatched around 10:51 a.m. after a fire alarm was activated in the 9410 block of Route 29 in the Trillium Apartments, according Fairfax County Fire and Rescue.
Arriving on the scene, firefighters found a sofa on fire in one of the apartments, which was quickly extinguished. During the incident, residents of the building were evacuated to the complex's parking lot.
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