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Ambulances no longer guaranteed for less urgent 911 calls in DC
“Our goal is to get patients with nonemergency conditions to more appropriate health care, to preserve the department and hospital resources for those patients with life-threatening illnesses and injuries,” said D.C. Fire Chief Gregory Dean.
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With increasing calls, DC leader ‘anxious’ about lack of reserve fire truck
“Currently we do not have a reserve ladder fleet.” D.C. has no backup ladder trucks if one goes out of service and it’s getting more emergency calls then ever before, the city’s fire chief said.
2 months ago -
Report finds speed, intoxication behind deadly fire truck crash
A newly released police report shows that a D.C. firefighter behind the wheel of a fire truck that crashed into a car last March, killing its intoxicated driver, was traveling nearly 25 miles an hour over the speed limit.
2 months ago -
DC police investigate killing of retired colleague whose body was found in burning SE house
The fire that engulfed a Southeast D.C. house in which the bodies of two people, including a retired D.C. police employee, were discovered over the weekend was intentionally set as was another house fire about a block away.
3 months ago -
One dead, 3 injured in crash near National Mall
One person is dead and another in critical condition following a crash near the National Mall on the Sunday before Christmas.
4 months ago -
1 dead in Northeast DC fire at senior citizens high rise
One person died Wednesday night in a fire at a Northeast D.C. multi-story apartment building for senior citizens, D.C. Fire and EMS said.
6 months ago -
‘I will never, ever forget you’: Woman thanks DC firefighter who helped save her life
A D.C. senior who was rescued from the Capper Senior Housing complex fire got the chance to thank the firefighter who helped guide her to safety.
7 months ago -
DC fire chief: Hallway alarms didn’t sound during fire at senior housing
Investigators will examine why the main alarm system did not sound throughout the four-story apartment complex for senior citizens, as a huge fire broke out Wednesday afternoon near the Washington Navy Yard.
7 months ago -
Flames, thick smoke burst from senior housing building in Southeast DC
Officials said every resident of the senior home is accounted for and that residents have been sent to nearby shelters set up to house them in the interim.
7 months ago -
33 years later, DC police say fire deaths were no accident
D.C. police are now treating the deaths of a man and a woman in a 1985 house fire as a double homicide. It was originally thought the deaths were accidental.
1 year ago -
DC man sentenced for setting fire that killed 4-year-old girl
A man has been sentenced to decades in prison on charges that he set a house fire that led to the death of a 4-year-old girl in 2013.
1 year ago -
Woman critically hurt in DC house fire; hoarding hinders fire crews
A woman ran from a burning D.C. rowhouse Monday morning, her clothes on fire. A neighbor, a D.C. firefighter, rushed in to put out her burning clothes and stave off the spread of the flames until more help arrived.
1 year ago -
Called to spot near White House, DC fire crew sent to wrong address
A security threat near the White House early Tuesday morning demanded quick action from the Secret Service, and the D.C. police and fire departments, but a 911 dispatcher sent the fire crew to the wrong address.
1 year ago -
Ice breaker: How this fire crew is cracking DC’s icy waterways
Though the frozen Potomac and other icy local waterways make for a serene sight, those conditions are hazardous if there’s an emergency. Here’s how a D.C. fire crew breaks the ice.
1 year ago -
Order breakfast, help an injured DC firefighter
Probationary D.C. firefighter Dane Smothers Jr. was critically injured in an accident last week. There are two ways you can help him, and one gets you breakfast!
2 years ago
