Members from Abingdon Volunteer Fire and Rescue were dispatched to a reported commercial structure fire early Monday evening at Safe Harbor Storage on George Washington Memorial Highway in the White Marsh area. In a statement AVFR said that the first officer to arrive on scene, approximately two minutes after the dispatch, confirmed a working fire with multiple storage units affected. Twenty-eight firefighters from AVFR and 18 from Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue responded to the incident, working to cut through locks and rolling doors to gain access to the affected units, while the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Department and VDOT helped with traffic control. After approximately an hour, crews managed to gain control of the spreading fire and remained on scene for an additional hour and a half to conduct overhaul, ensuring a fully extinguished fire, AVFR said. According to Fire Chief David Townsend, 20 units of the storage facility were heavily damaged and the cause of the fire is ...