RSS FeedSmall Fire At Terrell Place Today (575 7th St NW)
We initially got a SMS text alert at about 12:30pm that there was a fire at the Terrell Place complex (575 7th St NW) this afternoon. After heading down to the building about an hour later, the fire looked to have been contained.
The DC Fire Department already has the explaination of what happened on their website (thanks DCFD!):
At 11:53 AM, Fire & EMS responded for what a report of a building on fire in Chinatown, in the 500 block of 7th Street, NW.
Firefighters found that the emergency was in the 10-story Terrell Building, which contains a number of commercial properties, including Rosa Mexicano restaurant and the new Crime and Punishment Museum. There were heavy smoke conditions on the ninth floor where contractors were using a torch and accidentally set some insulation on fire around an air conditioning motor.
The fire impacted an electrical room on the ninth floor, but firefighters were able to knock the fire down before what would have been a catastrophic electrical event occurred. Subsequently, the fire pump in the building ruptured resulting in flooding conditions in several rooms.
The department’s water services task force is working with WASA and the building’s management to resolve the problem.
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