Emergency crews have shut down a portion of N. Glebe Road this afternoon after responding to a small fire in a single family house.
The house on the 2500 block of N. Glebe Road, just a few blocks from Marymount University, caught fire at about 2:00 p.m. today. Smoke was coming from a room in the front of the house when fire crews arrived on scene. The flames were quickly extinguished.
There is evident, albeit relatively minor, damage to the exterior of the house near where the fire appeared to have originated.
No injuries have been reported and the cause is under investigation.
Both directions of Glebe were blocked as of 2:30 p.m., with the northbound lanes expected to reopen shortly and the southbound lanes expected to remain blocked off until around 3:00 p.m. or later.