Kitchen Fire Damages Triangle Apartments

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A total of 23 residents of a Triangle apartment building were left homeless Tuesday night by a fire that broke out in a kitchen, the Prince William County fire department said.

At 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, fire and rescue units were dispatched to an apartment complex in the 18100 block of Kilmer Lane, the fire department said in a statement.

Upon arrival, fire and rescue crews saw smoke billowing from the roof of an apartment building. Firefighters entered the building and extinguished the fire, which was caused by unattended cooking in one unit’s kitchen, the statement said.

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Several residents were home at the time of the fire and safely evacuated the complex, the statement added. One occupant escaped the fire by jumping from a third-story window. That individual was transported to a local medical facility for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

In addition, one firefighter was taken to the facility for precautionary reasons, but was later released. The Red Cross was called to the scene to assist the 23 residents displaced by the blaze.

The fire, which was determined to be accidental, caused about $275,000 in damage, according to the county Fire Marshal’s Office. A county building official posted 11 apartment units as unsafe due to fire, smoke and water damage.