Eight people, including six children, are displaced after a fire ripped through a Northeast D.C. row house Wednesday afternoon, D.C. Fire & EMS said.
Bernadette McQueen, her six children, and her mother are now looking for a new home after the destruction. Worse than the property loss, however, is the fact two of the family dogs did not survive.
Firefighters were able to save several animals, including three dogs, one cat, and several turtles. Two of the dogs are okay, but one had to be taken to the veterinarian with serious injuries.
The row house is located in the 1700 block of Lincoln Road, NE.
McQueen said she lost everything inside the home. Luckily, nobody was inside the house at the time of the fire. Now, she is trying to figure out how exactly the fire started.