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Firefighter injured in Northwest DC blaze

A D.C. firefighter was injured Wednesday morning while battling a building fire in Northwest.

D.C. Fire and EMS said crews responded to the blaze in the 1000 block of U Street just before 12:30 a.m.



When crews arrived on scene, they found a fire on the second floor of a two-story commercial building. They were able to fully extinguish the blaze, and no other nearby buildings were damaged.

A firefighter was treated for his injuries by medics on the scene before being taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. No one else was injured.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Juan Herrera

Juan Herrera is an associate producer for WTOP Ì«×Ó̽»¨. He joined the radio news team in 2021 after previously working for WMAL Ì«×Ó̽»¨ as a news assistant. He is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

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