A firefighter was hospitalized and a resident treated for injuries sustained during a house fire this morning in Norfolk, Virginia.
The Virginian-Pilotreports (http://bit.ly/Sw3rYO) that fire was reported shortly before 5 a.m. and firefighters found heavy smoke and flames when they arrived on scene, said Capt. Mike Hicks, a Norfolk Fire-Rescue spokesman.
All the occupants of an apartment building next to the fire building got out of their building safely; the house where the fire was reported was vacant, Hicks said. The house, which had no electricity, was heavily damaged and fire investigators consider the fire suspicious.
The resident was treated at the scene and declined to be taken to a hospital. The city firefighter taken to a hospital suffered heat exhaustion, according to Hicks.
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