One person is in critical condition after a house fire in Ashton Heights early this morning.
The fire broke out around 1 a.m. on the 500 block of N. Ivy Street. By the time firefighters arrived, the front of the house was already fully engulfed in flames.
Two men who lived in the house made it out safely. A third man was “quickly located and rescued” and transported “to a burn center in critical condition,” according to the Arlington County Fire Department.
No firefighters were injured. The cause of the blaze is now under investigation.