Units with the Third Battalion Chief were dispatched to 1920 Naylor Road S.E. for an apartment fire. Engine 15 arrived on scene of a three story garden apartment building with nothing showing from the street. While Engine 15 advanced there 400 foot 1 ½ Rescue 3 forced the apartment door and initiated their search finding three unconscious children in the bedroom. The victims were removed and handed over to Ambulance 15 which was waiting on Side (A) of the building placing all the children in the unit, part of the crew from Rescue 3 assisted with transporting, along with EMS 3. All three victims were taken to Children Hospital. Engine 15 made quick work of the fire bringing it under control within minute’s command 3 held 2+2.

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A two story duplex in the Fourth Battalion was gutted by fire in the early morning hours of Saturday, January 30th.

The first floor of the home at 724 Roxboro Place NW was heavily involved when box alarm units arrived shortly before 7AM. A working fire dispatch was quickly sounded.

Flames rapidly swept upstairs to engulf the second floor and spread into the cockloft. Despite these extreme conditions, compounded by bitter cold temperatures, firefighters maintained an interior attack, finally knocking down the blaze and preventing any extension to the attached exposure.

All searches of the dwelling proved negative.

Biting cold did not prevent firefighters from quickly controlling a basement fire in Northeast DC late Friday morning, January 29th.

The blaze was in a two story row dwelling at 1330 G Street NE. A working fire dispatch was sounded when flames were found in the ceiling between the basement and first floors.

There were no injuries reported.

Sunday, January 24th at 0324 hours, Engine 30 (2nd due), Truck 17 (1st due) & Ambulance 30 were alerted for the house fire at 46th Street and Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave, NE. Engine 30 arrived on location at the corrected address of 4427 Hunt Pl, NE with an auto on fire with extension into two neighboring houses. The main structure involved was a two-story (with dormer) wood "balloon" frame house with fire showing. The Delta 1 exposure was a one-story wood-frame house under construction (no roof) with minor extension. BFC 2 changed the assignment, assigning Engine 30 1st due. The crew stretched the 200' crosslay making quick work of all fire. Truck 17's crew threw 3 ground ladders, the aerial, as well as venting horizontally and vertically. Due to the type of construction, significant overhaul had to be performed. Units from the Heights operated until 0515 hours.

Two elderly residents safely escaped their blazing home in the Woodridge neighborhood on Friday afternoon, January 22nd.

Heavy fire was showing from the two story, detached frame dwelling at 3811 25th Place NE around 2pm. Flames were encountered on both the first and second floors, and into the attic.

Despite the severe fire conditions and a house still festooned with Christmas decorations, both inside and out, firefighters on the box and working fire dispatch were able to mount an aggresive interior attack in order to contain and extinguish the blaze in about 20 minutes.

There were no injuries to either civilians of DC FEMS personnel.

DC FEMS personnel came to the aid of a woman who lept from an overpass into the open cut of the 3rd Street Tunnel on Friday, January 22nd.

The victim was found lying in the roadway under the E Street overpass. Despite the approximately 30 foot fall, she was still concious and alert when first responders arrived. The patient was transported to a local trauma center.
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A pre-dawn fire damaged a home in the Petworth neighborhood of Northwest Washington on Tuesday, January 19th.

Units on a box alarm arrived at 518 Jefferson Street NW around 5:45 AM to find fire on the first floor rear of a two story occupied row dwelling.

A working fire dispatch was sounded as firefighters initiated an interior attack, quickly knocking down the blaze. One civilian was treated and released at the scene.