WASHINGTON — Firefighters from the Oxon Hill area were alerted to a call for smoke inside of an apartment building with a smoke alarm sounding Sunday morning, according to officials.
In a press release, the Prince George’s Fire Department said its units responded to a 3-story apartment building in the 600 block of Audrey Lane at about 5 a.m. and arrived to confirm the 911 caller’s report of smoke in the hallway.
Firefighters entered a third floor apartment where the smoke alarm was sounding, and found a relatively small fire inside the apartment. While the fire was quickly contained and extinguished, an adult female was found in the area of fire origin with burn injuries and pronounced deceased. From the release:
A working smoke alarm was found inside the apartment of origin. The base of the alarm was correctly located in the hallway just outside of the sleeping area. However, the actual smoke alarm itself had previously been removed from the base and placed inside of a hallway closet. The alarm still was able to detect smoke and emitted an audible warning albeit more than likely delayed due to it’s location.
