Crime & Safety
Fire in Bedroom Damages Manassas-Area Home
Four displaced in Thursday evening blaze: Prince William fire department.

Prince William County firefighters extinguished a blaze Friday evening that broke out in a bedroom of a Manassas-area home.
The fire occurred at about 6:30 p.m. in the single-family house in the 6000 block of Greenway Court, said Kim Hylander, a spokeswoman for the Prince William County Department of Fire and Rescue. Nobody was injured, but two adults and two children were displaced by the fire, she said.
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The home is in a subdivision several miles southeast of the city of Manassas, between the Prince William Parkway and Davis Ford Road.
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When firefighters arrived on the scene, flames were coming from one of the house’s bedrooms, Hylander said. The crew extinguished the fire and prevented it from spreading to the rest of the house.
The cause of the fire is unknown and was under investigation on Friday, Hylander said. The Red Cross is helping those displaced by the fire, she added.
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