![Another view of the fire on Clarendon Boulevard. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CLARENDON-FIRE.jpg)
![From Katharine Maddox at Facebook](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/arlingtonfire3.jpg)
#Update: 2 additional Engines & 2 Medic Units requested to the scene. 2nd Airport Crash Truck responding from Dulles pic.twitter.com/lLUOer02Be
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) June 21, 2016
![From Katharine Maddox at Facebook.](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/arlingtonfire2.jpg)
And more foam pic.twitter.com/8z9hVz0ai2
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) June 21, 2016
![The transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CleknHiXIAA3XSb.jpg)
Foam being put on the fire now. pic.twitter.com/1ExuJpr6Xj
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) June 21, 2016
@WTOP @WTOPtraffic alert of Clarendon Blvd blocked N Fillmore. Heard explosion earlier. Power flickered. https://t.co/8uecDqPawe
— Pamela Sorensen (@pamelaspunch) June 21, 2016
Video of what units are dealing with on scene of the transformer fire. pic.twitter.com/qXI3YozGfg
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) June 21, 2016
Airport's crash truck putting purple K on the fire. pic.twitter.com/nVzPjaRSPe
— Arlington Fire (@ACFDPIO) June 21, 2016
@WTOP @WTOPtraffic alert of Clarendon Blvd blocked N Fillmore. Heard explosion earlier. Power flickered. https://t.co/8uecDqPawe
— Pamela Sorensen (@pamelaspunch) June 21, 2016
![The transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CLARENDON-BLVD-FIRE.jpg)
![A transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard sent up smoke visible for miles on Tuesday. (Courtesy Twitter user @sunoe312)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Clef-cwWgAAxzU9.jpg)
![Another view of the fire on Clarendon Boulevard. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CLARENDON-FIRE-260x174.jpg)
![From Katharine Maddox at Facebook](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/arlingtonfire3-260x174.jpg)
![From Katharine Maddox at Facebook.](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/arlingtonfire2-260x174.jpg)
![The transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CleknHiXIAA3XSb-260x174.jpg)
![The transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard at about 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. (Courtesy of the Arlington County Fire Department)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CLARENDON-BLVD-FIRE-260x174.jpg)
![A transformer fire on Clarendon Boulevard sent up smoke visible for miles on Tuesday. (Courtesy Twitter user @sunoe312)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Clef-cwWgAAxzU9-260x174.jpg)
WASHINGTON — Fire crews in Arlington battled a transformer fire in a building on Clarendon Boulevard for about two hours before containing it Tuesday morning.
The Arlington County Fire Department says that a transformer caught fire in the basement of a building in the 2800 block of Clarendon Boulevard around 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Shortly after 9, they said that they had dispatched a second alarm and firefighters on the scene were asking for an airport crash truck with dry-chemical capabilities. They sprayed a dry purple chemical and foam on the fire.
The fire department said via Twitter that the fire was brought contained at about 11 a.m.
They say no one was hurt; Hundreds of Dominion Virginia Power were without power as a result.
Clarendon Boulevard was closed at Fillmore Street while fire crews battles the blaze.
@WTOP @WTOPtraffic alert of Clarendon Blvd blocked N Fillmore. Heard explosion earlier. Power flickered. https://t.co/8uecDqPawe
— Pamela Sorensen (@pamelaspunch) June 21, 2016