NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Eight people and a dog were displaced after a fire at a townhouse on Wellington Street in Norfolk Saturday morning, according to Norfolk Fire-Rescue.
At around 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 17, the department’s crews responded to the 6400 block of Wellington Street for a reported residential structure fire.
When crews arrived to the scene, they found a fire in the first-floor bedroom of a two-story townhouse. The fire was also spreading to the attic. Firefighters started an aggressive fire attack that brought the fire under control by 6:56 a.m…