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Apr 12, 2005
Fire Alarm Silent at the Dorchester
Residents of Dorchester House apartment building on 16th Street in Adams Morgan are upset after a fire last Wednesday. Nobody was seriously hurt and the D.C. Fire Department responded quickly and extinguished the blaze, but the building’s alarm apparently never went off. In a message posted to the neighborhood listserv, a resident reports A friend pulled the fire alarm in my hallway, but NO SOUND CAME OUT WHATSOEVER. In response to this shocking development, we…