Helmet-cam video of ladder rescue at Fairfax County, VA apartment fire
Helmet-cam video posted by Jon Long from an apartment fire Sunday at the Morningside Apartments on Zircon Drive in Fairfax County, Virginia. According to the video description these are crews from Company 408 (Annandale) in action.
Fire officials say the child was experimenting with matches in a closet on the ground floor of the Morningside Apartments, off of Zircon Drive in Alexandria, when the fire broke out just before 2 p.m. Sunday.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the one unit where it started, but heavy smoke and water damage affected several other units.
“I saw smoke coming into our room and everything, and suddenly my mom [said] ‘Hurry up and grab your stuff,’” said a woman who did not want to be identified.
She says by the time they got to their front door, the smoke was too intense to use the stairwell.
“Everybody, the management, said, ‘Hold on, hold on the firemen will come back [and] rescue you guys,’” she said. “I was panicking and crying. I thought I couldn’t get out from that building.”
The unidentified woman and her mother were rescued by firefighters from their balcony on the third floor.
