Fairfax identifies county’s 1st fire fatality

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue identified the man killed in a Lorton, Virginia, fire over the weekend.

Charles Ngeh, 59, died in the house fire in the 9100 block of Aspenpark Court Sunday.



Ngeh is the county’s first fire death of 2022.

Investigators are still looking for the cause of the two-alarm blaze.

A second person sustained minor injuries, the fire department said on Feb. 27.

A fire destroyed a Lorton home on Feb. 26, 2022. (Courtesy Fairfax County Fire and Rescue)

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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