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Fairfax identifies county’s 1st fire fatality

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue identified the man killed in a Lorton, Virginia, fire over the weekend.

Charles Ngeh, 59, died in the house fire in the 9100 block of Aspenpark Court Sunday.



Ngeh is the county’s first fire death of 2022.

Investigators are still looking for the cause of the two-alarm blaze.

A second person sustained minor injuries, the fire department said on Feb. 27.

A fire destroyed a Lorton home on Feb. 26, 2022. (Courtesy Fairfax County Fire and Rescue)

McLean man offering fake computer tech support gets federal jail time

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