Remember this brutal fire back in August? It’s great it’s getting repaired so quickly, I was fearful that it may be a shell for a while. You can see some amazing photos from an eyewitness of the fire here.
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I was contacted by the writer behind 2bars3stars who wrote about his experience in the Harvard Hall Apartment fire Sunday night. He writes in his blog:
“It’s a little after 2 a.m. E. and I are sound asleep, then startled awake. Our neighbor, a close friend, is pounding on the front door of our Adams Morgan apartment, alerting us to a fire raging down the hall.”
In an email he writes that he’d like to:
“Uncover the facts of last night’s Adams Morgan apartment fire, in which no fire alarms were heard during the fire. Harvard Hall is a huge building, 7 floors. It was unbelievable to see so many people leaving the building a half hour after us, having slept through the blaze. The building manager manages lots of old buildings in Adams Morgan and, if HH is par for the course, a catastrophe is easy to imagine. If the fire had been on the scale of the mt. pleasant apartment fire last year, and the alarms failed, lots of people could’ve died.”
There was coverage of the fire in the City Paper and the Post.
Any readers out there residents of this Harvard Hall Apartments in Adams Morgan? Did you hear any fire alarms?
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Thanks to a reader for sending:
“16th St. NW is closed between Florida Ave. and Euclid St. due to a working fire at 2440 16th St. NW.”
If anyone snapped a photo please send to [email protected] or upload it to the PoPville flickr pool here.
Thanks.
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photo by Vicki Ashton
I couldn’t find a photo of Engine Co. 6 but props to them!
From a reader:
“I just wanted to give the firefighters of DC Engine Company 6 a much-needed shout out. My carbon monoxide detector started going off this morning, and my roommate and I called 311 after going outside. We were immediately and professionally transferred to 911, who sent a truck within 5 or 10 minutes. The firefighters were super-friendly and polite, and even got along great with the landlord’s two dogs. They had to call in another unit with a carbon monoxide detector, who also showed up promptly, and led the way into the apartment to test it. It turned out to be a false alarm, but the whole thing was handled really well by DCFD. They made what could have been a worrying occasion much easier and really helped out.”
Sometimes we take the good guys for granted.
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From ALERTDC:
“14th St. NW from Florida Ave. to V St, and the intersection of 15th St. NW and W St. NW. Please completely avoid this area if possible during PM rush hour.”
If anyone is in the area please send some photos to [email protected]
updated: From a reader (photo above):
“From my office window on 14th Street taken 3:30 this afternoon. The building next door caught on fire for the 4th time in about a month. It’s the Perseus development project at the old Bowen YMCA; people keep breaking in and setting fires.”
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Thanks to all the readers who sent photos of the aftermath of the car fire Monday night.
Here are a few:
More after the jump. (more…)
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Thanks to a reader for sending. Took place Monday night around 8pm.
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photo by Jamie
I’ve been getting a number of emails about lots of smoke and fire trucks on Georgia Ave. Anyone down there – know the scoop?
If anyone has photos please email [email protected] Will update as soon as I get more details.
From a reader:
“There is some kind of big fire in petworth maybe near spring and ga ave? Smoke all over the place and multiple firetrucks. We could smell the smoke in my house and it sort of permeated the neighborhood… When we looked out our kitchen window it seemed to be billowing out of some building in the spring road area? There’s nothing on the news…”
Updated: Farmfreshmeat took some photos. (See above). It was a house fire on Quebec near 10th Street.
Updated 2: NBC Washington is reporting: “A body has been found inside a building fire…in the 1000 block of Quebec Place.”
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Thanks to DC Defacto for sending the news and the amazing photos. From an email:
“I was down at 19th and M today (Oct. 4) right when a huge fire was being contained (on the block where Penang restaurant is).”
More photos after the jump. (more…)
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A reader sent in this photo of a van on fire, Thursday night, on the 100 block of Varnum St. Insane. Incidentally, I just read in the Post how car and house fires are on the rise as people can’t afford payments. I’m not sure how this fire started but it is an incredible sight. Check out another shot with a firefighter after the jump.
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