A little before 4 p.m. Sunday, a fire broke out on the second floor of a single-family home on Warrenton s Fourth Street. The fire and the water damage resulting from efforts to extinguish it will leave the structure uninhabitable, officials said. A preliminary investigation found the fire was an accident.
Homeowner William Cropp Jr. said his son was the only person inside the house when the fire started; the son was taken to the emergency room for possible smoke inhalation but was determined not to have suffered any major injury, he said. Two dogs died in the blaze, however. The Red Cross is assisting the family.
The Rappahannock Electric Cooperative outage map as of 10:35 a.m. Dec. 7.
Warrenton Volunteer Fire Company Assistant Fire Chief Sam Myers said Thursday morning that most of the calls his station had responded to over the past day were related to trees on power lines. Most of them were outdoor electrical hazards due to the ice accumulation on trees.
The regional office of the Virginia Department of Transportation said in a 6 a.m. press release that all major highways had been cleared of snow but that secondary roads were still hazardous. VDOT crews will continue working on Thursday to address those icy conditions and clean up any roads that were not completely plowed on Wednesday, the release said.