Photos: Deadly Fire on Quebec Place, NW
This afternoon I visited 1034 Quebec Place, where a massive fire claimed a life this morning. Firemen had a four-block area on lockdown. Pepco technicians were on every corner, assessing potential damage to the grid. Baleful neighbors watched the excavation and gave the professionals a wide berth. One woman told me that her daughter had called 911 before leaving for elementary school.
More photos below the jump.
[D.C. Fire Spokesman Alan Etter didn't have much in the way of updates by C.O.B., except to say that families in the adjoining houses had been displaced and that neither he nor the MPD could identify the victim conclusively.*]
The cage from which firefighters rescued a dog
The burnt-out husk of 1034 Quebec
*According to WUSA9, Etter identified the victim as female. Etter assures me he made no such statement.
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8:13 pm
That statement about the woman saying her daughter called 911 is a false statement because the fire department operator said my grandmother was the first to call and my 10 year old brother(Nijee Simpson) was the first to notice it by looking out of his window.On his way to school he bravely knocked on the door, but no answer. It was too late.
7:19 pm
China,
Thanks for writing in. It sounds like a lot of people phoned to report the fire — during the times I was there, neighbors were comparing notes on who'd dialed 911 first. So I wouldn't doubt the woman's story.
And yes, that is remarkably brave of Nijee.
~Ted