CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Albemarle County Fire Rescue and the Charlottesville Fire Department responded to and extinguished a fire at 420 McCormick Rd. on the Grounds of the University of Virginia on Friday afternoon. The incident occurred at UVA’s Page House, one of a row of historic buildings the school uses as residence halls for about 1,300 students.

Five fire trucks and a number of other ambulances and emergency vehicles were on the scene, and police had blocked off McCormick Rd. to car traffic.

A source at the scene told Cville Right Now that there had been an active fire in the building but, by 1:35 p.m., it had been extinguished and crews were remaining on the scene for “clean up.”

UVA issued an emergency alert about the situation at 1:02 p.m. By 1:44, a second alert announced the situation was “stable.”