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Jan 26 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
(1) Interesting parallel between 2 @MetrorailSafety investigations released Tuesday. One report proved @wmata put out misleading (a kind way to say it) statements that covered up the truth about the July 30 Woodley-Dupont fire. Details in this thread. (more)
(2) The second one was about a train operator who made a significant safety error endangering fellow workers & lied about it to @MetrorailSafety. Despite the lie, the train op still runs trains. @justingeorge has that story. (more) washingtonpost.com/transportation…
(3) The investigations illustrate a lot more than a lack of safety culture & crucial safety concerns continuing at @wmata. They show that candor, truth & transparency just aren't core values for #WMATA. I hope reporters insist @wmataGM & Paul "Safety First" Smedberg address this. Image

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Jan 26
(1) NEW: For the 3rd time in 40 hrs. I'm asking questions about why DC 911 sent @dcfireems to a wrong address. This time it's for a shooting an hour ago near 1200 NJ Ave. SE. @OUC_DC originally dispatched it to 1200 NJ Ave. NW. (more) @CMBrookePinto @SafeDC @MayorBowser Image
(2) LISTEN: As you'll hear, it took more than 5 minutes for @OUC_DC to send the correct units to the correct address for this shooting. Even though someone at DC 911 put in the new address, they didn't tell @dcfireems. The crew from Medic 3 caught it. (more)
(3) We don't know how this happened. It's possible, @OUC_DC may explain at some point. But transparency is not the agency's normal SOP. We've tweeted at them looking for details on 2 calls yesterday that went to the wrong address. So far, no response. (more) Image
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Jan 26
(1) NEW: 8 miles apart & 2 very different DC locations. One is a tour boat dock in SW. The other is assisted living on the Walter Reed campus in NW. STATter911 has learned these addresses got mixed up during a DC 911 cardiac arrest call yesterday. (more) @CMBrookePinto @SafeDC
(2) LISTEN: The first call was dispatched at 4:58 p.m. DC 911/@OUC_DC sent 3 @dcfireems units for a person in cardiac arrest at 1320 Maine Avenue SW Suite 117. 1320 Maine Avenue SW is the address for DC Harbor Cruises. (more)
(3) LISTEN: At 5:03 p.m., DC 911 sent 3 different @dcfireems units to a similar sounding address about 8 miles away -- 1320 Main Drive NW. This was also a cardiac arrest call. The building is part of Abrams Assisted Living on the old Walter Reed campus. (more)
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Jan 25
(1) NEW: Trying to learn more about confusion at DC 911 over sound-alikes 8th St, A St & H St. This IS NOT a claim DC 911 made the error. I'm tweeting because it's the only way for me to get 911 call info from @OUC_DC. (more) @CMBrookePinto @brookepintodc @SafeDC @MayorBowser Image
(2) LISTEN: At 1:10 this morning, Ambulance 8 was dispatched to a rowhouse at 716 8th Street NE for someone with trouble breathing. (more)
(3) LISTEN: At 1:17 a.m., Truck 7 & Ambulance 6 were sent to 716 A Street NE -- also a rowhouse -- for someone with chest pains. (more)
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Jan 24
(1) @wmata tried to refute a July STATter911 story that it--once again--sent passengers toward danger, on an inspection that found smoke & fire. Today, @MetrorailSafety issued a report that confirms our story & shows #wmata's statements weren't true. (more) @knolkatie picture @knolkatie image
(2) Here's @wmata's statement plus comments given to @justingeorge following the fire & explosions/arcing between Woodley Park & Dupont Circle. Despite its own rules prohibiting sending passengers on an inspection train, #wmata desperately tried to justify the action. (more) ImageImageImage
(3) The rule that no passengers are supposed to be aboard any inspection train was announced in March of 2020 by the same spokesperson attempting to justify the actions during the July 30 Red Line incident. Here's a comparison: Image
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Jan 18
When being "#1 Worldwide" is not a good thing. Lots of people watching @Qantas 144 after the pilot declared a mayday upon losing an engine. Here's hoping for a safe landing in Sydney. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1… #aviation #qantas
On final approach now.
FlightRadar24 shows it on the ground taxiing off the runway with as many as 135K watching.
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Jan 18
(1) Thank you @GerryConnolly! You absolutely get it. It's not @MetrorailSafety that needs to change here, it's @wmata. @wmatagm is trying to blame WMSC, ignoring what we all know about #wmata's tragic history. From @justingeorge's latest. (more) wapo.st/3XhKEZi
(2) @SenatorCardin also gets it. He makes the case I've made for a long time -- there is no "culture of safety" at @wmata. It has never existed. Without @MetrorailSafety there's zero chance for it to exist. If anything, they should be giving WMSC more teeth. (more)
(3) Sorry @mkorman, this is wrong. Not everyone agrees "safety is the goal". Despite decades of lip service about "safety first" -- including Smedberg on Monday -- history, recent WMSC investigations & my own reporting shows that just isn't the case with @wmata. (more)
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