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Person displaced after fire at duplex in Chic's Beach

The Virginia Beach Fire Department said the fire was at a home on DuPont Circle off of Shore Drive.
Credit: Virginia Beach Fire Department
A fire started at a duplex on Dupont Circle in Chic's Beach in Virginia Beach on August 7, 2020.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Emergency dispatchers said crews were working to put out a fire at a home in Chic's Beach Friday afternoon. 

They received a call about the fire shortly before 1:05 p.m. It was in the 3700 block of Dupont Circle between Shore Drive and Jefferson Boulevard.

The Virginia Beach Fire Department said it had the fire out by 1:30 p.m.

The fire displaced a person who lived in one of the duplex's units. A spokesman for the fire department said there was no one in the other unit.

Investigators still were working to determine how the fire started as of 3:30p p.m.

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