Virginia Early Morning Home Fire Leaves Three Displaced
I want to walk you through what happened early Wednesday morning in Norfolk—because this isn’t just another “fire call” headline, it’s a real situation that forced three people out of their home before most of the city was awake.
Around 1:30 a.m., Norfolk Fire-Rescue crews were dispatched to a house in the 5200 block of East Princess Anne Road. When firefighters arrived, they saw flames burning on the outside of a two-story home. What looked like an exterior fire at first quickly raised concern about what might be happening inside.
As crews worked the scene, they found that the fire had already pushed into the attic. That’s a dangerous moment in any house fire—you and I both know how fast attic fires can turn a small incident into a total loss. Firefighters moved quickly, knocked down the attic fire, and stopped it from spreading further. Fire control was declared just before 1:50 a.m…