Last week D.C. firefighters helped get a man down from an unlikely place: the top of a garbage truck that had tipped backwards.

A man walking in Columbia Heights was killed this afternoon when he was struck by a waste-removal truck in the 1400 block of Columbia Road NW.

An anonymous reader sent DCist a series of photos of a D.C. Department of Public Works garbage truck driving through a recreation field in Rose Park in Georgetown last Saturday. The tipster described the truck as having hopped the curb to gain access to the “grass of a children’s play area” in the park, and wondered whether this was safe. No one was injured, but a baby carriage in the foreground of the images certainly…