
Dave Statter
@STATter911
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Dispatches from the rabbit hole from a senile, crazy gadfly who--in his more lucid moments--provides fire and EMS news. @STATter911 also on BlueSky & Threads.
Joined April 2009
From Crisis to Clarity. Join @PIOPete, @PIOMarkBrady, @HillaryHowardDC, Ron Siarnicki, and me on June 27 at @NFSAorg in Linthicum Heights, MD for this PIO Academy Workshop. Register here - @ThePIOAcademy @BillyGoldfeder @ChiefBashoor
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BREAKING: There is a significant response from fire, EMS, and police for an aircraft reported down in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport. Initial reports of a possible midair collision. Victims have been found by one of the rescue boats. @ARLnowDOTcom.
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Watch: Lightning hit the U.S. Capitol at 5:36 pm, simultaneously to - or a few seconds after - lightning hit the Washington Monument. @ARLnowDOTcom @capitalweather @HillaryHowardDC @dougkammerer @stormhour @PoPville @charlienbc @6abcDan #weather #stormhour #DC
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A little perspective: The sounds that panicked those at Nationals Park tonight are heard multiple times a day in neighborhoods around the Nation's Capital. Last night, only 2 miles to the south, another shooting on the street killed 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney. @PoPville.
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@brianstelter @HallieJackson @Jordanfabian Maybe the answer to "I am going to move on" is "I yield my time to ____".
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BREAKING: Things are very chaotic at the Fashion Centre in Pentagon City. @ArlingtonVaPD reporting multiple fights involving scores of people. They are calling for additional officers and EMS. This is the second or third time there have been fights reported at the mall today. One
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Watch: Looks like another lightning strike at the Washington Monument. It happened at 5:36 p.m. The slow-motion shows it better. @ARLnowDOTcom @capitalweather @HillaryHowardDC @dougkammerer @stormhour @PoPville @charlienbc @6abcDan #weather #stormhour #DC
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MUST SEE: This is the start of I-395N rampage. Truck got on at 110N. Hit vehicles before Boundary Channel. Plowed into at least 5 before the bridge. Driver ran off. Will show you the stolen ambulance chase shortly. @ARLnowDOTcom @MetrorailSafety @TomJackmanWP #395rampage
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Caught On Camera: This was the other wild scene that occurred just minutes before people ran from what turned out to be a smash and grab robbery at the Fashion Centre in Pentagon City. This was a separate incident just across Army Navy Drive. @DCPoliceDept followed a Toyota
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Watch: The view of a meteor at 7:48 p.m. ET looking north from near the Pentagon in Arlington County, VA. Thanks to @Ldemarconews for the alert. @ARLnowDOTcom @capitalweather @matthewyoung31 @HillaryHowardDC @CordellTraffic #MeteorDC #meteor #skywatchers #Pentagon #Arlington
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BREAKING NEWS: A truck plowed into numerous cars on I-395N in a number of locations between Crystal City & the 14th Street Bridge. Truck driver ran off. Multiple people hurt. Some trapped. I-395N shut. Video of crashes shortly. @ARLnowDOTcom @RealTimeNews10 @charlienbc #safety
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UPDATE: Report of as many as 60 people on board the commercial jet in the Potomac River. Large scale rescue operation underway with numerous boats being dispatched from Maryland and Virginia.
@STATter911 @ARLnowDOTcom Damn, a full size plane? ✈️ hope everyone is ok.
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MUST SEE: This is an enhanced video of the crash just before the bridge plus some of the stolen ambulance chase into DC. From @SafetyVid & @Statter911. Media DM me if interested in video. @ARLnowDOTcom #395rampage @TomJackmanWP
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Watch: Looks like a direct hit on the Washington Monument at 11:41 p.m. When you are the big guy around this tends to happen to you. @capitalweather @dougkammerer @StormHour @HillaryHowardDC @JoeMurgo @hbwx @matthewyoung31 #weather #stormhour
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Watch: Haven't shared one of these in a while. It's easy to blame I-395's engineering but the truth is as long as #drivers see this as acceptable behavior it won't go away. Yesterday at 1:20 pm. @VaDOTNOVA @CordellTraffic #vatraffic #traffic #395cam
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A fatal case of "Do you know who I am?" disease from New Jersey. Must see video-.#firefighters #police
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Press briefing: It took four hours to get a briefing about the mid-air collision adjacent to Reagan National Airport. During the briefing, @MayorBowser said she and the other officials can't talk about casualties but no one indicates why they can't. There has been no.
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UPDATE: Boats, helicopters, mass casualty response being coordinated by the Baltimore City Fire Department after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge carries I-695 over the Patapsco River south of Baltimore Harbor. Early reports are that an ship hit the bridge.
BREAKING: There has been a collapse of the Key Bridge in Baltimore. ⏬⏬#bridgecollapse #baltimore.
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Did the driver of this vehicle endanger everyone on I-395 because they. a. have a true emergency & couldn't sit in the main lanes backup?.b. are lost?.c. are drunk?.d. want to keep alive the DC area stereotype of being more important than anyone else?. @WTOPtraffic @DildineWTOP
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@chieffishell There was only 94 seconds from the start of the warning until an officer reported the collapse.
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BREAKING: This appears to be video of the midair collision of what's reported to be a commercial jet with 60 people on board and a helicopter in the Potomac River adjacent to Reagan National Airport. It happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. ET. Multiple bodies have been recovered from.
BREAKING: A Webcam caught the the explosion and crash of the passenger plane and helicopter bear the Potomac river
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A tribute: Less than 12 hours left and I'm getting nostalgic and a bit teary-eyed. As @VaDOTNOVA alerted us yesterday, the ramp from Boundary Channel southbound to I-395S closes permanently at 5 a.m. Countless drivers have convinced themselves it's perfectly fine to dash almost
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NEW: STATter911 video of the two jets yesterday forced to divert their approaches to Reagan National Airport due to a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter circling the Pentagon. The Black Hawk, identified as PAT 23, appeared to be on what has become the new normal pattern for landing
NTSB investigating Thursday's incidents at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in which a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 and a Republic Airways Embraer E170 were instructed by air traffic control to perform go-arounds due to a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter inbound to the.
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NEW: Absolute chaos tonight at DC911/@OUC_DC. About seven minutes were lost when 13 @dcfireems units were dispatched for a reported building fire at 1704 R Street in Northwest. There was no fire at that location. The fire was burning more than six miles away at 1704 R Street in
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NEW: For 6 full minutes -- from midnight until 12:06 a.m.--no one at DC911/@OUC_DC monitored or answered the emergency radio channel that handles EMS calls in Southwest & Northwest. Multiple @dcfireems units attempted to call in. Among those not getting an answer were paramedics
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MUST SEE: Stolen.@ArlingtonVaFD.ambulance being chased into the I-395N express lanes at 4:25 pm. It plowed into multiple cars. That was 45 minutes after the truck smashed up cars in the main lanes. Media DM if interested in the video. @ARLnowDOTcom.@TomJackmanWP.#395rampage
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NEW: Prior to deadly crash, a pickup truck driver raced the wrong way at high speed along Wilson Blvd. to N. Glebe Rd. The truck passed an @ArlingtonVaPD officer at N. George Mason Dr. who tried to catch up. A woman died in the collision. Her car was hit after she pulled onto
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NEW: With I-395N still shut due to a crash in DC people are improvising. Some synchronized backing down the on ramp from the Pentagon. @PFPAOfficial being practical & giving in to make sure there are no collisions on S. Rotary Rd. @WTOPtraffic @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA #vatraffic
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#caughtoncamera: Just after 10 a.m. we had the timeless, classic crash on I-395N at Exit 10C for the GW Parkway northbound. One driver, determined to make it from the right side on-ramp to the left side off-ramp, ruined the day for two other drivers. No indication of serious
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Key Bridge Update 5: One significant concern is the fate of a work crew on the bridge at the time of the collapse. The crew may have contained as many as 20 people. The video shows multiple work vehicles in the center of the bridge at the time of the collision. I've posted all I.
Key Bridge Update 4: Here is more on the container ship that struck the Francis Scott Keys Bridge via Vessel Finder. The Dali is out of Singapore.
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Watch: After a weekend of some extraordinary madness on I-395 it's nice to just get back to the normal, everyday madness. Or is it? @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA @CordellTraffic @matthewyoung31 #safety #drivers #395cam #vatraffic
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Drivers were generally well-behaved with the shutting of I-395S Exit 8C for overnight @VaDOTNOVA bridge work & this morning's Armed Forces Cycling Classic. But then there was this one. Appeared that @VSPPIO trooper had paperwork for them. All lanes now open.
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Caught on camera: Here's the video from the crash with one overturned at Army-Navy Drive & S. Hayes Street in Pentagon City, VA. This occurred shortly after 5:30 p.m. Lots of people stopped to help, including one person who ran off of a shuttle bus to pitch in. @ArlingtonVaFD and
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The #Inauguration2021 #fireworks as viewed from Arlington County, Virginia. @WTOP @WTOPtraffic @DildineWTOP.@hhowardWTOP @ARLnowDOTcom #InaugurationDay
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@evanperez @brianstelter Since Sessions took no questions will reporters have to rely on leaks to get those answers?.
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@benshapiro @PattonOswalt I'm Jewish &read all this. Haven't a clue what the anti-Semitic slur is. Sounds like someone needs a safe space.
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Yesterday, I showed you Code Red. Today, it's a view of Code Purple & Maroon! Where I could make out the monuments across the Potomac yesterday, now the river's completely obscured & it's hard to see the Pentagon just across I-395. @capitalweather @ARLnowDOTcom #WildfireSmoke
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THIS IS IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ & REPOST:. No one should answer 911 calls or dispatch fire, EMS, or police in the nation's capital if they don't know that the Watergate Hotel and Four Mile Run at the George Washington Parkway are on opposite sides of the Potomac River, miles apart
YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS: An absolute embarrassment that, once again, shows how little DC911/@OUC_DC workers know about the geography of the city they serve. This car into the water was dispatched as along the GW Parkway at Four Mile Run near the Watergate Hotel. No one at OUC
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Watch: Don't deny it. You know it's what you've been waiting for. Some of the best of the best this week from those who don't know there are other exits on I-395. Number 1 is my favorite. @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA @JohnKelly #drivers #traffic #vatraffic
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Caught on camera: Vehicle went airborne in crash at Route 50 and I-66. Five people inside. Two with life-threatening injuries. @FairfaxCountyPD confirm reported stolen vehicle. Video from @ffxnow @matthewyoung31 @HCBright10 @CordellTraffic #safety #crash
Officers are on scene of a crash at Rt. 50 and I66 in Fair Oaks. All five adult occupants transported to the hospital, two w/ life-threatening injuries. (1/2)
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Major incident in North Arlington: House explosion with people burned near Key Elementary School. @ArlingtonVaPD referred to the explosion as at the target address. Police and fire units were already in the area of that house. Explosion heard throughout Arlington. I heard the.
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#caughtoncamera: Making a left turn on an interstate highway may be hazardous to the health of you & your car. 10:01 a.m. on I-395S at Exit 8C (Rt 1S). @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA @tomroussey7news @bforte22 @CordellTraffic @matthewyoung31 @HCBright10 #traffic #vatraffic #395cam
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New: The express lanes on I-395N north of the Pentagon are currently blocked. @ArlingtonVaPD have stopped a vehicle believed wanted in connection with a felony investigation. @ARLnowDOTcom @matthewyoung31 @HCBright10 @Newsguy41 @CordellTraffic
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An @AmericanAir flight leaves @Reagan_Airport Sunday evening. Do you have to pay extra for the rainbow flight? @capitalweather @WTOPtraffic @ARLnowDOTcom @wtop @hhowardWTOP @StormHour @dougkammerer #weather #rainbow #dcrainbow #aviation
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PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST: I urge you to read or watch @SegravesNBC4 latest story tonight about @DCdistrictdogs. It illustrates the absolute cruelty of @MayorBowser's administration when it comes to @OUC_DC. Because of the city's failure to share clear facts & the complete.
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More on Memorial Bridge: At the moment @dcfireems reports just one car over the bridge.
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NEW: Video of American Airlines Flight 2246 from Boston aborting its landing at Reagan National yesterday morning. In light of the tragic mid-air collision last month I understand why this was news but my experience living near the airport is that this occurs somewhat regularly.
An American Airlines flight from Boston aborted its landing at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday morning to avoid another plane that was taking off on the same runway, authorities said.
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MUST SEE: Trust me, you'll want to see this. Where's a cop when you need one? Tonight, just after 9 pm, a @VSPPIO trooper was right there for one driver's U-turn & wrong way jaunt on I-395N near the Pentagon. @ARLnowDOTcom @safetyvid @CordellTraffic @matthewyoung31 @DildineWTOP
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The view from Arlington of the long-lasting double rainbow over DC this evening. @capitalweather @WTOPtraffic @ARLnowDOTcom @wtop @hhowardWTOP @StormHour @dougkammerer #weather #rainbow #dcrainbow
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(1) BREAKING: DC911/@OUC_DC's Heather McGaffin finally admits DC911 messed up in the @dcdistrictdogs response. As we told you last Monday the 15-minute delay would come down to what the first 911 callers said. They said plenty about how bad the situation was. It was an EMERGENCY!.
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#caughtoncamera: A new one at Exit 8C 45 minutes ago. As you'll see, this one was almost a rollover. Apparently no injuries. @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA @CordellTraffic @HCBright10 @charlienbc @RealTimeNews10 #395cam #statcam #drivers #traffic #vatraffic
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Drama in Pentagon City: @ArlingtonVaPD watched this car at S. 15th & S. Hayes this afternoon due to the tag indicating it was wanted in New Jersey. When people got into it police moved in. Despite officers having their guns drawn two people took off in different directions. No
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.@dcfireems Chief John Donnelly has confirmed that officially this is no longer a rescue operation and is considered a recovery operation. No survivors of the mid-air collision have been found. Twenty-seven bodies believed to be from the jet have been recovered. One body has been.
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Lots of reinforcements from Virginia police agencies heading into DC. Most recent was @VSPPIO. #DCProtests #protest #CapitolBuilding #CapitolHill #police #CapitolAttack @ARLnowDOTcom @WTOPtraffic @WTOP
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Truck drivers to the rescue: Looks like @ffxfirerescue firefighters have a couple of truckers angling for their jobs. This was a car fire a short time ago on the Outer Loop near Georgetown Pike. Before firefighters arrived, a tractor trailer driver used his rig to block the lane.
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NEW VIDEO: This shows the carjacked Toyota Highlander being parked at the Pentagon just before 3:30 p.m. The three people inside sat for a few minutes and then walked toward the Pentagon Metro. But it appears they caught the eye of @PFPAOfficial officers and did an about face. At
Caught On Camera: This was the other wild scene that occurred just minutes before people ran from what turned out to be a smash and grab robbery at the Fashion Centre in Pentagon City. This was a separate incident just across Army Navy Drive. @DCPoliceDept followed a Toyota
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"Thank God for people like John Feal. Thank God for people like Ray Pfeifer." I say thank God for Jon Stewart who, unlike too many of our elected leaders, understands what "Never forget" means.
"Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time.". Jon Stewart receives a standing ovation from 9/11 first responders after slamming lawmakers for failing to fund programs providing healthcare to the first responders
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Watch: This is a four vehicle crash from Friday involving an @ArlingtonVaPD SUV. It was on Route 50W at Irving. Here's a preliminary summary from ACPD:. "At approximately 12:58 p.m. on July 5, an ACPD officer traveling westbound on Arlington Boulevard in the area of N. Irving
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Maryland Governor Wes Moore, confirmed the indication I got early this morning from radio traffic and a source that there was a warning before the collision that allowed vehicle traffic to be halted on the Key Bridge. Gov. Moore says that saved lives.
UPDATE: Boats, helicopters, mass casualty response being coordinated by the Baltimore City Fire Department after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge carries I-695 over the Patapsco River south of Baltimore Harbor. Early reports are that an ship hit the bridge.
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Watch: Despite the highway being treated and plowed, I have been seeing some drivers, like this one, not handling slick spots too well on I-395N passing the Pentagon. @VaDOTNOVA @ARLnowDOTcom @matthewyoung31 @CordellTraffic
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(1) Watch: A large group of ATVs, bikes & more that came across Key Bridge just before 7:30 pm yesterday. They are seen on Wilson Blvd & Clarendon Blvd just after this. Arlington cams via @SafetyVid. (more video) @ARLnowDOTcom @matthewyoung31 @CordellTraffic #safety #police #ATV
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NEW: This is something else. @VSPPIO just chased a stolen car on I-395N when they had to cut it off because of jammed traffic heading into DC. The car continued to speed away hitting multiple other vehicles as it tried to make it through on the narrow shoulder. On the bridge, it
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You have to see this: Truck driver today missed I-395S exit from @VAExpressLanes. Over 7 minutes there was an aborted effort to turn around followed by lots of backing up on an interstate highway. @SafetyVid @VaDOTNOVA @AdamTuss @tomroussey7news @JWPascale #traffic #vatraffic
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Watch: This driver isn't going to let a row of orange barrels get in between him and his exit. From last night around 8:30 p.m. @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA #traffic #vatraffic #drivers #395cam #statcam
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Watch: This is a @VSPPIO trooper chasing @ArlingtonVaFD Ambulance 110 by himself from Crystal City into Pentagon City & onto I-395S (before coming back north). Trooper had his gun drawn & the ambulance briefly stopped on Crystal Drive. Via @safetyvid @ARLnowDOTcom #395rampage
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@NormOrnstein A few years behind you, we got the sugar cube. I think it might have been blue.
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NEW: Within the last half-hour, there were at least two robberies or attempted robberies along S. Eads Street in Crystal City. One was at the Whole Foods at S. 12th and another at an apartment complex near S. 16th. @ArlingtonVaPD have detained a group of people near the Pentagon
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NEW: Tonight's meteor from the MCDOT camera at I-270 & W. Diamond Avenue in Gaithersburg, MD. Happened at about 6:49 p.m. ET. Video via @SafetyVid. @capitalweather @matthewyoung31 @HillaryHowardDC @JoshMankiewicz #meteor #maryland
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Shortly after DC911/@OUC_DC dispatched this 8:51 pm crash to the inbound 14th St. Bridge, the DC battalion chief asked OUC if @ArlingtonVaFD had been dispatched. The dispatcher said they didn't know. They weren't. Not until 9:04 pm. 13 minutes for what is supposed to be SOP on
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Caught on camera: Two teenagers ran to the Pentagon after a failed Crystal City carjacking this morning. @PFPAOfficial officers caught the pair at the Pentagon Transit Center immediately after hearing the lookout from @ArlingtonVaPD. The victim ran away from the teens after
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#caughtoncamera: A crash on I-395S at Exit 8A tonight. You'll never guess how it happened. @ARLnowDOTcom @charlienbc @tomroussey7news @JohnKelly @RealTimeNews10 @CordellTraffic @VaDOTNOVA @JWPascale @AdamTuss @FitzFox5DC @HCBright10 @luzcita #395cam #drivers #traffic #vatraffic
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It took almost 30 minutes for an ambulance to get to an apparently seriously injured biker in Rock Creek Park this morning. For some reason, DC911/@OUC_DC dispatched @dcfireems to Rock Creek Parkway & Beach Drive when the biker was located about 2.5 miles north of there, near the
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Watch: Exit 8C never disappoints. It's always something that has you go WTF! Today at 10:00 a.m. @ARLnowDOTcom @VaDOTNOVA @SafetyVid @CordellTraffic #safety #crash #collision #traffic #395cam
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NEW: Last night's deadly crash off the Memorial Bridge highlights two long-standing impediments to public safety in the nation's capital – a continuously failing 911 center that makes the same mistakes over and over and the lack of a fireboat that can break thick ice on the
🚨 We have obtained exclusive footage of the crash on the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington DC, which left a driver in the Potomac River & critically injured after being pulled from the water. 🚨. 🎥: Nigisti Adane
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The man in this picture visiting Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office yesterday has now been placed on administrative leave by a Florida fire department. Details here-#firefighters #police #CapitolRiots #CapitolSiege
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Watch this: Someone was very confused. Driver attempted to head the wrong way on Wilson Blvd. at Washington Blvd. in Clarendon a short time ago. And then they decided to drive onto the sidewalk. @ArlingtonVaPD's nightlife detail was there immediately. Strange one. Video via
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