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Jan 10, 2014

Arlington Firetruck Becomes Victim Of Sinkhole

An Arlington County firetruck fell into a sinkhole early this morning.

Mar 12, 2010

Three Injured in Collision with Firetruck

Three people were injured in a large traffic collision at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW this morning. The intersection has since reopened, but the crash, which involved a D.C. firetruck along with two civilian vehicles, caused major traffic delays throughout the area for well over an hour. D.C. Fire/EMS spokesperson Pete Piringer said the firetruck was on its way to George Washington University Hospital when it got into a crash with the two other…

Apr 03, 2009

Nickles Says Firetruck Donation Was ‘Totally Proper’

One more update on Firetruckgate from the Examiner’s Michael Neibauer to end out the week. D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles is now defending the mysterious donation of an older D.C. government firetruck and ambulance to a resort town in the Dominican Republic, saying that the vehicles were properly declared surplus by the Office of Contracting and Procurement and lawfully donated to non-profit Peaceaholics, the group that arranged the donation. Even so, both vehicles have since…

 
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