Fire at downtown DC building snarls roads

A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
(Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
Smoke is seen in D.C. from an NBC helicopter shot. (Courtesy NBC Washington)
Smoke is seen in D.C. from an NBC helicopter shot. (Courtesy NBC Washington)
(Courtesy NBC Washington)
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A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
A fire at 17th and M streets Northwest snarled traffic in the area Tuesday. (Courtesy DC Fire and EMS)
Smoke is seen in D.C. from an NBC helicopter shot. (Courtesy NBC Washington)

WASHINGTON — A downtown D.C. building caught fire Tuesday morning.

D.C. Fire and EMS says it responded a bit before 11 a.m. to a building in the 1700 block of M Street in Northwest. They put it out by about noon.

No injuries have been reported.

The D.C. fire department said via Twitter that the fire was contained to a mechanical unit on the ceiling of the building, which was being demolished.

M Street was closed between 16th Street and Connecticut Avenue until about noon.

Colleen Kelleher

Colleen Kelleher is an award-winning journalist who has been with WTOP since 1996. Kelleher joined WTOP as the afternoon radio writer and night and weekend editor and made the move to WTOP.com in 2001. Now she works early mornings as the site's Senior Digital Editor.

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