Friday, September 24, 2010

Car Crashes into Vacant House on Gales

From dcfireems on Twitter:

Update - Gales St NE - car hit front concrete steps - car wrecked [and] caught fire, but structural damage appears minimal - fire under control

Update - Gales St NE - preliminary eval structure damage is superfical - bulk of fire knocked - house is believed to be vacant - no inj via web

update- Gales St NE - car crashed into house - bulk of fire knocked - checking for extension - poss structure damage - no injuries reported






ro said...
it's the house on the northwest corner of 19th and gales. main entrance is on 19th. just walked past there and it's pretty bad. hardly minimal. gaping hole on the gales side of the house. not sure if it was occupied but no one bothered to board it up or clean up the glass and debris in the street and sidewalk. car had to have been going pretty fast to do that type of damage,
 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Which block of Gales?

Anonymous said...

Yes, which block? Which address?

I live on Gales and I'm out of town!

ro said...

it was on 19th st

Anonymous said...

Yeah, I just saw this on the twitter feed:

Update- also known as- 700 blk 19th St NE (originally reported as 1900 blk Gales St NE) - car crashed into bldg & caught fire - fire is out

inked said...

Between 18th and 19th.

ro said...

it's the house on the northwest corner of 19th and gales. main entrance is on 19th. just walked past there and it's pretty bad. hardly minimal. gaping hole on the gales side of the house. not sure if it was occupied but no one bothered to board it up or clean up the glass and debris in the street and sidewalk. car had to have been going pretty fast to do that type of damage,

Tom A. said...

eek is that the cute light blue house with dark blue trim?

Tom A. said...

http://tinyurl.com/275c9ty

Buy Junk Cars said...

I can't see any tracks of a car crash...