Man seriously injured in apartment fire in Southeast DC
A man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a fire in his Southeast D.C. apartment Sunday afternoon.
Just before 2:30 p.m., D.C. Fire and EMS responded to the 1900 block of 23rd Street SE, where they found a second-floor unit on fire and a man in the apartment.
“Our firefighters gained entry to the building apartment, began to fight the fire,” D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Vito Maggiolo said. “The victim was quickly removed to the outside where we started advanced life-support measures.”
He added that the man was taken to a local hospital “with critical life-threatening injuries.”
Fire officials said the fire was contained to the one unit, but they’re still investigating whether any other residents will need to move out.
A cause for the fire is still to be determined.
Below is a map of where the apartment fire took place: