Evgenia and Christopher Burkard were among the residents displaced after a two-alarm townhouse fire tore through the 6500 block of Gladys May Lane in the Franconia area on Sunday, Feb. 1, loved ones said.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue crews were called to the scene around 9:09 p.m., when an end-unit townhouse erupted in flames, and the fire quickly spread to neighboring homes, officials said.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire showing from two townhomes, prompting a second alarm as crews worked to battle a gas-fed fire in the basement…