Two Arlington firefighters injured in house fire

Two firefighters were sent to the hospital Tuesday night after fighting a house fire in northern Virginia.

The Arlington Fire Department said the fire started at around 8 p.m. at a single-family home in the area of North Edgewood Street and 1st Road North.

More than 70 firefighters responded to the blaze. It took around 2 hours to put out.

Both firefighters were taken to the hospital and are expected to recover.

No one else was injured during the fire.

Below is a map of where the fire took place.

Thomas Robertson

Thomas Robertson is an Associate Producer and Web Writer/Editor at WTOP. After graduating in 2019 from James Madison University, Thomas moved away from Virginia for the first time in his life to cover the local government beat for a small daily newspaper in Zanesville, Ohio.

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