Fire Reported near Upshur Street Park. DCFD Reports: “burning playground equip. rear Sharp Health school 4300 13 St NW”

Photo by Ben Chase

Update:

We extinguished burning playground equip. rear Sharp Health school 4300 13 St NW. Investigator on scene. No injs. pic.twitter.com/cJHOTkZ7Mh

— DC Fire and EMS (@dcfireems) October 11, 2016

Thanks to all who’ve emailed and tweeted. Cmcmac reports:

“Whoa!! Huge fire in Petworth near the Upshur St rec center”

Justin writes:

“Uh. The Upshur Park is literally on fire. Looks like the playground is burning down.”

Reana reports:

“Huge clouds of black smoke and flame, firefighters just to scene, seem to have doused blaze.”