Update Tuesday, Oct. 22 - 7:40 a.m.: Following a 6-alarm fire at the Belle View Shopping Center early Monday, some businesses that are able to open may do so Tuesday, but several businesses will be closed for weeks or months.
Businesses sustaining the most visible damage included Belleview Cleaners-Launderers and Yido Sushi and Ramen, Dishes of India, Roy Rogers (a roof collapse) and adjacent businesses.
Most businesses on the west side of the plaza were open Monday, according to Covering the Corridor, including Safeway.
The following is a map of the shopping center from Google Maps:
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A six-alarm fire damaged multiple businesses and injured one firefighter at Belle View Shopping Center in the early hours of Monday morning, according to reports.
The fire was reported a few minutes after midnight Monday. At least two dozen units responded from Fairfax County plus the City of Alexandria, Prince William County and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority fire departments.
Covering the Corridor reported, "The fire was called in shortly after midnight, and appears to have broken out in the rear of the east side of the shopping shopping center near a cleaners and a recently opened sushi and ramen restaurant."
A Huntington resident who works at one of the businesses said a firefighter suggested the fire may have started at the dry cleaners and spread along the roofline of the shopping center.
NBC Washington reports most of the affected businesses have smoke and water damage, but the fire also caused the roof over Roy Rogers to collapse.
Read more, including responses from business owners, and see photos here from our partners at Covering the Corridor.
