UPDATE: Yellow Line trains single tracking between L'Enfant & Pentagon City. @ArlingtonVaFD is scaling things back at the Pentagon & @dcfireems doing same on its side. Metro is sending its people to check an insulator on the bridge.
UPDATE: There's always a certain amount of arcing visible on the Charles Fenwick Bridge carrying the Yellow Line over the Potomac. That's inherent in a third rail subway. Normally I can see the bridge, but there's too much fog this morning.
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(1) During yesterday's @councilofdc hearing, 24 days after David Griffin died, @OUC_DC displayed a lack of knowledge, candor & accountability -- even on facts made crystal clear in recordings. Listen for yourself in the following tweets (more) @charlesallen@Janeese4DC@SafeDC
(2) LISTEN: Even though @DCPoliceDept said recordings show DC 911 didn't tell officers Griffin had gone to P St, @OUC_DC came in unprepared/unwilling to admit the obvious. Doing so would undermine @OUC_DC's so-called "findings" that DC 911 wasn't responsible for the delays.(more)
(3) LISTEN: In a reply about how & when MPD's Harbor Patrol was notified @charlesallen pushed back at @OUC_DC's nonsensical response. But it has been public knowledge for at least 2 weeks how Harbor Patrol was notified. I'll show you in the next tweet. (more)
(1) @OUC_DC still won't explain why they couldn't get police to David Griffin during the half-hour he was out of control & harming himself before he died. But a @DCPoliceDept spokesperson has answers that confirm DC 911 errors. (more) @charlesallen@Janeese4DC@SafeDC@PoPville
(2) Despite a @dcfireems ambulance crew & the public calling DC 911 about the increasingly violent situation on March 14, @OUC_DC never coded the call as urgent. @DCPoliceDept confirms because it wasn't a Priority 1 call no officers were available to respond for 20 minutes.(more)
(3) The police spokesperson says dispatchers also never relayed the ambulance crew's message that Griffin had moved more than 2 blocks from the original address. Police were further delayed while trying to find people who could tell them where Griffin had gone. (more)
(1) NEW: How bad are structural issues with the T.R. Bridge? It isn't just the public impacted by emergency repairs. STATter911 has learned both @ArlingtonVaFD & @dcfireems are restricting how fire apparatus can access the bridge for emergencies. (more) #vatraffic#dctraffic
(2) @ArlingtonVaFD confirms it's following the lead of @dcfireems which limits speeds to a maximum of 25 mph, prohibits fire apparatus from parking side-by-side, keeps apparatus at least 30 feet from each other & 30 feet from open bridge joints. (more)
(3) @dcfireems also makes it clear that heavier pieces of fire apparatus like Tower 3 and the department's foam units aren't to use the T.R. Bridge "under any circumstances." #firefighters#traffic
(1) Throughout my career & especially in recent years I've uncovered confusion & delay by @wmata in notifying area fire departments about rail emergencies. @NTSB found these same issues during Metro's first deadly accident, 40-years-ago today. (more) #wmata
(2) Here's part of the timeline of the detrailment near Federal Triangle on January 13, 1982, killing 3 & injuring 25. Metro initially only asked for an ambulance 4 minutes after the derailment. It took 12 minutes to relay to DCFD that passengers were trapped. (more)
(3) Here's @NTSB's findings from inside the Rail Operations Control Center. It's very similar to more recent findings of ROCC chaos by @MetrorailSafety. (more)
(1) Amid its current crisis you'd hope Metro is being vigilant on other safety issues. Radio traffic during the smoking Metro Center light fixture yesterday provides doubt. It indicates Metro sent a passenger filled train to do a smoke inspection. And that's not all. (more)
(2) LISTEN: At 6:42 pm the controller asked the operator of Train 905 -- then at Metro Center -- if they saw smoke. 905 saw none. 905 was then told to do a track inspection looking for smoke between Metro Center & McPherson. No order was given to off-load passengers. (more)
(3) Train 905 (Orange Line to Vienna) arrived at McPherson & reported no smoke. No big deal. Right? Sorry, but this is the type of action by Metro's Rail Operations Control Center (ROCC) that previously trapped, injured & even killed passengers. It's not supposed to occur. (more)