NORFOLK, Va. — UPDATE: Firefighters had a busy Saturday in Norfolk, fighting three separate residential fires.
In the first fire, Norfolk Fire-Rescue said crews were called to the 1500 block of Palmetto Street shortly after 7 a.m. for a report of a fire at a 2-unit, single-story apartment building.
The fire was quickly brought under control, and firefighters were able to keep it from spreading to the other department.
The people who lived in the apartment where the fire broke out will be displaced.
Fire marshals charged a 35-year-old woman with one count of arson to an occupied dwelling, Norfolk Fire-Rescue said Monday.
About an hour later, another fire was reported at an apartment complex in the 7200 block of Oakmont Drive. Arriving firefighters saw smoke coming from the roof of a building. They were able to contain the fire to the attic and second-floor bathroom of a vacant apartment.
This fire was marked under control at 8:50 a.m.
Both upstairs and downstairs apartments were vacant, so no one was displaced.
Then, shortly after 1 p.m., a fire was reported on Lexington Avenue in the Olde Huntersville area of the city. A fire in one building spread to a second building right next to the first. Both were put out within about 40 minutes.
As a result of this fire, a total of nine people - six adults and three children - were displaced.
Nobody was hurt in any of these fires, and the cause of all three are under investigation.
(Note: This has been updated to include the third - most recent - fire)
