Three people were forced out of their homes last week by an apartment fire in the Herndon area that investigators say resulted from improperly discarded smoking materials.
The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department was dispatched at 12:42 p.m. last Wednesday (April 15) for reports of an outdoor fire that was spreading to the Kendrick Court Senior Apartments building (13430 Coppermine Road) in McNair.
“First-arriving units found fire extending from the outside into a ground-floor apartment with flames reaching toward the second floor,” the FCFRD said yesterday (Monday) in a press release. “Crews quickly began working to extinguish the fire and conduct searches while evacuating residents.”…