Get the details at INCIDENT REPORT.
Fire broke out at a house in Ashburn on Saturday when a carpenter driving a nail into a basement wall accidentally pierced a propane gas cylinder, according to the Loudoun County Fire Marshal's Office.
The worker was trying to strike a stud in the wall but missed, causing the nail to go through the wall and into the camping-style propane cylinder, fire officials said. They said the propane was released near a gas water heater's pilot light, igniting the fire.
Crews from Arcola, South Riding, Ashburn and Sterling Park, responding to a 911 call at 3:34 p.m., encountered fire throughout the house at 42811 Conquest Circle. It took about 30 minutes to bring the fire under control.
The carpenter was taken to Inova Loudoun Hospital with minor burns on his hands. No one else was injured.
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Damage to the house was estimated at $400,000, and its four residents are being housed elsewhere.
The Washington Post
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