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

[D.R. Watkins]

Found it, but my timing was off by a couple years.  It was in 1977, and was
listed as a 3-alarm, but I remember seeing more trucks than would respond to
a 3-alarm.  The link for the '77 fire is
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120044964.html?
dids=120044964:120044964&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&fmac=&date=Jan+19%2C+1977&autho
r=&desc=175+People+Homeless+in+NW+Blaze .  Actually, several articles came
back to that event by searching on "3145 Mount Pleasant" (I had to spell out
Mount).  I didn't see the whole article since I didn't buy it.

Dewey

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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 22:10
To: D.R. Watkins; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Apartment Fire - Mt. Pleasant DC


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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