Firefighters truck in water to fight Fairfax Co. fire

Imagine there’s a fire at your home, but when the firefighters arrive, there’s no hydrant nearby. What do they do?

In Fairfax County, it happened Tuesday morning in the 7100 block of Wolf Den Road when a garage went up in flames.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman Bill Delaney said firefighters had to truck in water from a nearby pond that was about a quarter-mile away.

He said pumper trucks rotated going back and forth from the pond to the home.

Everyone in the home managed to get out safely, and the fire did not spread to the home.

WTOP’s Andrea Cambron contributed to this story.

Colleen Kelleher

Colleen Kelleher is an award-winning journalist who has been with WTOP since 1996. Kelleher joined WTOP as the afternoon radio writer and night and weekend editor and made the move to WTOP.com in 2001. Now she works early mornings as the site's Senior Digital Editor.

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