UPDATE: Witnesses Say Falls Church Fire Moved Through House Quickly

Two people are confirmed dead after a raging inferno destroyed a Falls Church home Wednesday.

Capt. William Moreland, a spokesman with Fairfax County Fire and Rescue, said firefighters were called to the home in the 3100 block of Manor Rd. The entire single-level ranch-style home was completely engulfed when crews arrived.

Moreland said they will release the identities of the victims once family has been notified.

Steve Klass, who lives next door to the destroyed home, said he was awakened by a loud roaring sound at about 3:30 a.m. He said a woman who lived at the home, who was deaf, could be heard screaming.

“By the time I got a shirt on and got outside, you couldn’t get close to the house,” Klass said.

Klass said he didn’t know much about the woman who lived at the home other than she was a professor at Gallaudet University.

A spokeswoman at Gallaudet, a school for the deaf, could not confirm the victim in the fire was a member of the university’s community.

Patch will continue to update this story as more information becomes available.

For more on this story, see: Second Body Found in Falls Church Fire

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