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Candle fire displaces 11 adults, 2 children in Woodbridge

A fire in a Woodbridge condo displaced 11 adults and two children [Photo: Prince William fire and rescue]
On Monday, January 10 at 4:41 pm, Prince William County fire and rescue crews went to the 15000 block of Weathervane Terrace in Woodbridge for a report of a fire inside a condominium.

Crews arrived on the scene with fire and smoke coming from a condo unit in the rear of the building. As crews battled flames, an occupant in an adjacent unit had to be evacuated down a ladder from the second story in the front of the building, said fire and rescue spokesman Matt Smolksy.

Fire crews later learned a smoke detector alerted the the occupants of the home where the fire originated to the blaze. Emergency crews took one of the occupants in the fire unit was taken to a local hospital with a non-life threatening injury.

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