Trains are stopped in the area of the Ballston station while firefighters and Metro personnel investigate a report of smoke in a tunnel.
“Trains are not running between Ballston and East Falls Church because of a report smoke outside Ballston,” Metro said on social media around 2:20 p.m. “While we work to arrange shuttle buses… Customers may use the 2A bus route between Ballston, East Falls Church and Dunn Loring.”
A smoky apartment fire sparked by an e-scooter could have been much worse if not for a sprinkler system.
The fire broke out around 1:30 p.m. on the first floor of The Jordan, a four-story apartment building at 801 N. Wakefield Street, in the Bluemont neighborhood near Ballston. Arriving firefighters reported encountering smoke, an electrical fire, and residents evacuating the building.
A fire in a small apartment building near Columbia Pike might have been intentionally set.
The fire broke out around 5 a.m. on Thursday, May 15. Firefighters rescued several people using ladders as the fire burned in a stairwell of the garden apartment building.
A Ballston-area medic unit temporarily went out of service last Friday due to ongoing staffing problems at the Arlington County Fire Department.
The unit at Station 2 ceased operations during the day shift to avoid holding firefighters on mandatory, unscheduled overtime, ACFD spokesperson Capt. Jamie Jill told ARLnow.
A soaking rain and gusty winds are causing some tree troubles around Arlington.
Nearly an inch of rain has fallen so far today. Also falling: trees and utility lines.
A beloved firefighter who died earlier this month was honored yesterday (Tuesday) with an emotional radio farewell from the Arlington County Fire Department.
The announcement that came across Arlington airwaves around 3:30 p.m. started like dispatches for significant incidents, with three long beeps. But unlike others, the message that followed was a moving tribute to the life of firefighter Lloyd Edwards.
The management office for the Fairlington Villages condo association caught fire Wednesday afternoon.
Firefighters responded around 2 p.m. to a report of a building on fire at 3001 S. Abingdon Street, near Abingdon Elementary School in the Fairlington neighborhood.
Behind Arlington’s public safety employees and first responders are a pair of social workers supporting them through therapy and mental health services.
Donna Young and Leslie Geer joined the county as public safety wellness coordinators in 2023. Equipped with backgrounds in clinical social work, the duo spearheads employee wellness trainings, ensures agencies have adequate wellness policies and offers short-term therapy and mental health services.
Firefighters are on scene of a significant gas line rupture in Arlington’s Glencarlyn neighborhood.
The leak was reported shortly before 4 p.m. on the 5500 block of 3rd Street S., between the Glencarlyn Library and Glencarlyn Park. Initial reports suggest that a county crew using an excavator punctured a gas main.
After an Arlington firefighter lost his home in a fire last week, a fundraiser to support his family has raised over $35,000.
Fire Capt. David Zuniga became aware of the blaze around 5:30 a.m. on Friday when his 18-year-old daughter got up to prepare for a friend’s graduation.
Firefighters rescued several people using ladders after a fire in an apartment stairwell early this morning.
The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. Thursday at a garden apartment complex along Columbia Pike, on the 1000 block of S. Quebec Street.
A pedestrian was struck and injured by a turning driver on N. Glebe Road near Marymount University’s main campus.
The crash happened around 3 p.m. at the intersection with 26th Street N.
