A fire in a Northwest Washington apartment early Tuesday left a man critically injured, but the fire department stopped the blaze from spreading. Fire and EMS personnel responded to the building in the 600 block of Morton Street at 1:15 a.m., where they saw fire and smoke coming from the top floor, D.C. Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter said.
Responders removed a man and a woman from the burning third-floor residence, but an “aggressive attack” held the fire in check and no other building residents were displaced, Etter said. The man suffered critical injuries from both burns and smoke inhalation, but his status was unknown Tuesday. The woman was recovering from smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
