WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — One person was taken to the hospital after a fire broke out in Southeast D.C. late Saturday night, officials said.
In a post on the X platform at 10:30 p.m., the DC Fire and EMS Department said crews were responding to a fire at an apartment in the 2300 block of Green Street SE.
There, firefighters reported finding flames coming from the bedroom of a second-floor apartment. Crews extinguished the fire, but a hazmat unit was called to the scene because a lithium-ion battery was reportedly involved.
Medics took one resident to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Officials noted that the blaze left two people displaced and that the Red Cross is assisting them…