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Just when you thought all the post-Christmas news was bad (car fires, travel problems, etc.) here’s a nice one from the Columbia Heights listserve: On Christmas Day, some friends asked me if I had received their Christmas gift which was to be delivered by FedEx on Christmas Eve. Alas, no gift was to be found…
A reader sent this picture of the car fire on Spring Road between 14th and 16th at about 12:30 am on Wednesday. Pretty insane. Their description: We were worried that the power lines were going to catch on fire the flames were shooting so high. The photo doesnt even really capture how intense it was…
Mini Cooper fire from August Uh oh, more car fires. A few months ago I wrote about a rash of car and moped fires around the 14th-16th and Spring Road area. The fire department was classifying them all as “mechanical failures” rather than arson. News got out about this and the city was going to…
Yuh oh. Sounds like the alley behind 1400 Perry Place NW, between Otis and Spring, has a rat problem. There’s been some listserve traffic about it, there’s trash getting dumped and the city hasn’t done anything about it, despite it getting reported by residents. As the resident puts it, there are two issues: one, that…