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Update: Lightning Likely Cause of House Fire

Several engines respond to fire on Trenholm Drive

 

Update (4:15 p.m. Saturday): Bob and Sonya Mylls were present when lightning struck their Trenholm Drive home Friday night, but a neighbor knocked on their door to alert them of the upstairs fire, another neighbor said.

Soon after the Myllses evacuated their home, firefighters arrived to find fire shooting through the roof of the 3140 Trenholm Drive two-story home, the neighbor said.

"I was really impressed with the firefighters. They were calm and worked fast, really polite," a neighbor said. "I've never seen them in action before, and they were impressive."

Though the fire has the Mylls family displaced, neighbors were working to clean up the home Saturday afternoon in the first of many steps to getting the couple, who neighbors say are in their 70s, back into their home.

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Update (1:05 a.m. Saturday): Firefighters believe lightning caused the house fire at 3140 Trenholm Drive on Friday, a Fairfax County dispatcher said.

The fire started in the attic, but did not extend into the rest of the home, the dispatcher said. Firefighters are still on the scene in salvage mode, she said. 

Dispatch was unable to confirm information on the home's occupants. 

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Firefighters responded to a fire on the 3100 block of Trenholm Drive in Oakton on Friday night, a Fairfax County dispatcher said.

At 10:19 p.m. Friday, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue received a call for a fire that units on scene said scorched through the two-story home's roof. A county dispatcher said "several" trucks responded to the call and the fire has "possibly" been put out, as firefighters are currently checking the home for fire that might still be ablaze in the walls.

Dispatch does not yet have more specific information.

Patch will update this story as more information becomes available.

Related Topics: House Fire

Derrick Welsh

12:10 am on Saturday, June 2, 2012

**Fairfax County**
Box : 3413
Channel : 4 Delta
Command Channel : 4 Echo
Call : House Fire
Address : 3137 Trenholm Drive
Units : E421, E440, E431, FE403, TL440, T403, R421, M421, K416, K439, AL436, EMS401, EMS403, BC403, BC443, SAF401
Update : First Arriving units found Active Fire Through 60% of Roof, firefighters quickly established a water supply and advanced hoselines throught the home, and upstairs to where they found fire in the attic. Firefighters made a quick knock on the fire in the attic within 30-40 minutes, some units are still currently on scene for some extensive overhaul. Those held units will be on scene for an unknown amount of time. All occupants were safely outside the house prior to the dispatched call.
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Nicole Trifone

1:13 am on Saturday, June 2, 2012

Thanks, Derrick! That's much more detail than I'm able to get from dispatch at this time.

Derrick Welsh

1:22 am on Saturday, June 2, 2012

More Of An Update
Holding Engine 421, and Tower-Ladder 440 for UnKnown Amount Of Time
Operations Channel 4 Delta Has Been Cleared
Command Channel 4 Echo Has Been Cleared
Command Has Been Terminated By 1st Due Battalion Chief (BC403)
Safety-Officer401 is still currently on-scene with E421 & TL440

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