blaze. it happened about 8:00 this morning. it s a two-alarm fire. additional fire ambulance and medics all this equipment was brought to the scene. we were told a firefighter was transported priority one, that means critical condition can life-threatened injuries. we later found out he died. also we were told about other serious injuries. the second firefighter was transported serious but non-life threatening injuries and another reported serious with non-life threatening injuries. all i know i work to an alarm going off in the building. i came to look outside my door there was smoke everywhere. now, ira evans lives next door on the ninth floor, in ex-door to the building where the fire broke out. he says an elderly woman lives there. he saw her briefly. he tells us she said she had been cooking nothing this morning, that she had serial for breakfast and told him the fire broke out in a back room. d.c. firefighters are trying to determine the cause of this blaze that k