Crime & Safety
Electric Explosion Causes Fire on Winterthur
No injuries in apartment fire near Hunters Woods - on the same block where a suspicious death occurred on Saturday.
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue evacuated an apartment building near Hunters Woods Village Center after an electrial explosion caused a fire shortly after 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
The explosion occurred in the electrical supply to 11913 Winterthur Ln., a three-story apartment building in the Winterthur development. Flames shot up around the outside of the building, but did not enter the building, said incident commander Mike Deli.
There were no injuries, and power went out in the 11913 building as part of the surge. Personnel from Dominion Virginia Power shut off the power to several other nearby buildings as firefighters got the flames under control.
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The fire was outside of the same building in which Bharat Patel, the part-owner of the new Hunters Woods Dunkin' Donuts, resided. His death is still under investigation.
Police and fire officials would not speculate whether the suspicious death and the fire were related. management also had no comment.
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