The fire wiped out six businesses on the corner of 5th Avenue and Broadway street in downtown Alexandria, as well as displaced nearly two dozen residents from their apartments located above the businesses.
Alexandria Fire Chief Jeff Karrow said that because of the coronavirus pandemic, all those on scene were taking precautions – many wearing Tyvek suits, masks, gloves or anything else they need to be safe.
This was the week that was set up for everyone to be at the scene doing their investigations. If they didn’t get it done now, he said it possibly wouldn’t have happened until August.
“They are being protected,” said Karrow. “No one on scene is sick or coughing. They are doing their due diligence.”
He said it is standard practice for businesses to have building insurance, as well as a business policy. Each insurance company working on this case hires its own fire investigators and experts, such as electricians, to try and find out what happened. Even though they all have their own people, the whole group works together so they are not duplicating services, said Karrow.
He said everything was being mapped out, photos were being taken and items were being cleaned, sketched and documented.
“It is very tedious work,” Karrow said.
He described it as if everyone was in canoes in the same stream, paddling the same direction trying to get to the same destination.
He believes that the origin of the fire might be known by the end of the week. However, it won’t be official until the investigation is complete, which means until everything has been sent to forensic labs and the lab reports come back.
“It’s not like what you see on TV during an episode of CSI,” Karrow said. “They don’t figure it out that quickly. They have to focus in, clean, take pictures, go through everything and hone in on it. It’s like an onion and they have to peel back each layer.”
Karrow called the whole process “quite amazing” and “pretty interesting.”
“These guys have been doing this kind of thing for 20 to 30 years,” he said. “They know what they are doing.”
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