[Scan-DC] Apartment Fire - Mt. Pleasant DC

[oldsdoug at hotmail.com]

35 years ago would be, what, 1973?  Gawd, I'm old.  Might be worth scanning the Washington Pest archives... can be done thru the Montgomery County Library system if you have a card... if I have a chance over the weekend, will take a look.

> From: drwatkins3 at rcn.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Apartment Fire - Mt. Pleasant DC
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:02:37 -0400
> CC:
>
> The most interesting thing about this is that this same building almost
> burned down due to a multi-alarm fire somewhere around 35 years ago. I grew
> up in Mt. Pleasant, and walked up to watch that fire after hearing about the
> 9th or 10th fire truck running up Irving Street. IIRC, the first fire was
> as bad as the pictures of this fire, and also happened about 10 o'clock at
> night during the cold of winter. I remember because the firefighters would
> turn the hoses on those of us watching every so often as a form of crowd
> control (not full flow, but more like a constant rain). I wish there were a
> way I could go back and look up that fire, because I would bet that it was
> no less than 3 alarms. Just remembering the days growing up in Mt
> Pleasant... I was scanning then, but only had MPDC in my 4 channel Pro-4...
> might have been the Pro-6, which ever one did UHF (4D, 4D-Tac, SOD, CW-1).
>
> Dewey
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