FORT BELVOIR, VA — In an event that has left defense officials speechless, the Pentagon's top safety organization recently suffered the embarrassment of having its headquarters building catch fire and burn to the ground.

According to officials from Fort Belvoir, the Center for Operational Risk Management, was "thoroughly gutted" by last night's blaze and is now completely unusable.

The fire is believed to have started around 3 a.m. and was first noticed by the building's night watchman upon his return from a routine off-base beer run.

A preliminary investigation by the Fort Belvoir Fire Department suggests that the fire started after several thousand copies of this month's Safety Update were improperly stored next to two "grossly overloaded" electrical outlets.