Fire Fills Commercial Building With Smoke In Mount Vernon

MOUNT VERNON, VA — Fairfax County Fire and Rescue is responding to a commercial fire in the Mount Vernon area Wednesday. No injuries have been reported.

The fire happened at a commercial building in the 8700 block of Richmond Highway. Firefighters located the blaze in a trash compactor connected to the building. The fire caused the building to fill with smoke.

Firefighters have put out the fire and do not believe it has any extension.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the fire or an estimate of damages.