News

First responders in swift water boats and a U.S. Park Police helicopter are scouring the Potomac River for a man who went missing while swimming in the Great Falls Park area yesterday (Sunday).

Montgomery County’s police and fire departments received a call around 6:15 p.m. for a swimmer in distress near the Billy Goat Trail in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park in Potomac, Maryland.


Weather

More than 21,200 Dominion Energy customers in Fairfax County have reported losing power as a result of thunderstorms currently passing through the region.

As of 8 p.m., the majority of outages are focused in the eastern part of the county, though some in the Fair Oaks area have also been affected, according to Dominion’s outage map. In most cases, the utility hasn’t determined an estimated time of restoration yet.


News

Bren Mar Park Elementary School students, staff and PTA leaders gathered last Friday (May 29) to thank those who saved their school the previous month.

The full school community turned out to welcome Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department personnel and those from Fairfax County Public Schools’ facilities team who responded to the April 19 two-alarm blaze on the roof of a new addition to the school.


News

Don’t be alarmed if you see fire trucks, ambulances and other emergency vehicles swarming the West Falls Church Metro station area this Sunday (May 31).

Metro announced today that the West Falls Church Rail Yard to the north of the transit station near I-66 and the Dulles Access Road in Idylwood will host an emergency response exercise from 6 a.m. to noon that day.


News

A McLean resident was hospitalized as a result of a fire that broke out at their home in the Langley High School area early this morning (Friday).

Firefighters were dispatched to the 900 block of Turkey Run Road for the house fire at around 12:49 a.m., according to scanner traffic.


News

An electric vehicle crashed and caught fire on the Dulles Access Road in Tysons yesterday (Wednesday), sending one person to the hospital.

Units with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched for an electric vehicle fire in the westbound lanes of the Dulles Access Road near Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) in Tysons at 5:03 p.m., according to the emergency scanner.


News

A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries in a collision with a dump truck this afternoon (Tuesday) on Richmond Highway in Lorton.

Police and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched around 1:43 p.m. to Richmond Highway at Lorton Road near Gunston Plaza for a crash described initially as involving “an 18-wheeler,” according to scanner traffic.


News

A man has been taken to the hospital with serious injuries following a crash on Ox Road (Route 123) near the Crosspointe Fire Station in Lorton.

Police officers and units with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to Ox Road at Hampton Station Court just after 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) for a single-vehicle crash.


News

For one Lorton homeowner, this week’s trash pickup might’ve left more garbage than it took away.

A garbage truck crashed into a single-family house in the 7600 block of Henry Knox Drive this morning (Tuesday), drawing a response from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department around 11:18 a.m.


News

Three people were forced out of their homes last week by an apartment fire in the Herndon area that investigators say resulted from improperly discarded smoking materials.

The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department was dispatched at 12:42 p.m. last Wednesday (April 15) for reports of an outdoor fire that was spreading to the Kendrick Court Senior Apartments building (13430 Coppermine Road) in McNair.


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