Activites canceled as Winter Storm Toby approaches
All activities scheduled in Fairfax County public schools or on school grounds for this afternoon (Tuesday) and evening are canceled (Condition 6), due to winter…
Floods & Natural Disasters
Dominion expects to restore power by Tuesday
Dominion Energy reports it has restored nearly 80 percent of the more than 690,000 customers that lost service from the windstorm and with additional crew…
Weather threatens Thursday morning commute
Many offices and schools are closed as a winter storm moves through the Fairfax area. Government, Schools and Courts Fairfax County Government offices will be open on Thursday, Jan. 4, however…
Fairfax search and rescue firefighters heading home from PR and VI
Fairfax County firefighters, who’ve been helping hurricane victims in Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico for the past three weeks, will be back…
Fairfax rescuers in Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Va. National Guard heads to Virgin Islands
Search and rescue teams from Virginia are playing a major role in recovery efforts from Puerto Rico to Texas to the Virgin Islands. After sheltering from…
Fairfax firefighters now in Maria’s cross-hairs
A week ago search and rescue teams from Fairfax County were in St. Thomas, cleaning up after the island was devastated by Hurricane Irma. Now,…
Big emergency drill planned Tuesday in Fairfax County
We don’t know the precise disaster Fairfax County emergency planners have in store, but they’ve scheduled a major emergency exercise for Tuesday. They’re calling it…
NOVA linemen headed to Florida to help return power
Hundreds of workers from Virginia’s Dominion Energy company are heading south, ready to splice and rehang power cables brought down by Hurricane Irma. Convoys of…
Fairfax County search and rescue teams hard at work on St. Thomas
The island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, hard-hit by Hurricane Irma, is the assignment for Virginia Task Force 1. That’s the 80-member…
Fairfax firefighters head to Virgin Islands in Irma’s wake
The U.S. Virgin Islands, devastated by Hurricane Irma, is the destination for Fairfax County’s Virginia Task Force 1. The 80 firefighters are specialists in urban…