Still in the office, D.C.? Yeah, us too. We hope you’re only sticking around because you don’t need to travel this holiday season. If so, enjoy the empty halls, bask in the quiet, and call it a day early. If not — well, good luck on the roads and at the airport. It sounds like they’re going to be predictably nasty.
There Seems To Be Some Sort of Holiday Occurring: And consequently you can expect the standard set of thematically-appropriate news stories. There’s the unexpected medical threat (scalding roasting pans – NBC4). There’s the local celebrity charity effort (Marion Barry’s turkey giveaway – NBC4). And there’s the manipulative, heartwrenching evocation of recent tragedy (families of Virginia Tech shooting victims will be celebrating Thanksgiving, too – WJLA). Now you just need to collect “How Do They Celebrate In Other Countries?” and “Costumed Pet Has No Dignity But Plenty of Holiday Spirit” and you’ll have the complete set.
Fire Dept. Report Says Adams Morgan Hydrants Sufficient: The Post brings word of a new report authored by the D.C. Fire Department concerning the October fire in Adams Morgan that raged for hours and temporarily trapped several firefighters. As you might recall, the last word was that firefighter error, perhaps prompted by bad maps from WASA, led to the wrong hydrant being tapped, making Fire Chief Dennis Rubin’s subsequent complaints about the infrastructure look unfounded. The new report seems to bear that out, finding that there was adequate water pressure available.
Briefly Noted: Vigil held for Rockville teens killed in auto accident… Jury still deadlocked in Prince George’s Corruption trial… Bail denied to former Children’s Museum official facing child pornography charges… NBC4 offering tips on how to avoid police impersonators…
This Day In DCist: One year ago we were breakfasting at Dos Gringos. Two years ago we were having trouble getting panda tickets.
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