(1) There were two assaults on women within 11 hours yesterday near or on the Key Bridge. This is Arlington traffic-cam video from @SafetyVid after a woman was stabbed just before 9 p.m. Details in the next tweet. (more) @ARLnowDOTcom@CordellTraffic@HCBright10#arlington#crime
(2) As you saw in the video, a lot of people stopped to help the woman after the attack. Here's the statement from @ArlingtonVaPD about the stabbing: (more)
(3) At 10:35 am, @dcfireems Ambulance 29 reported a woman was attacked by a man on or near the bridge. The ambulance found her on the VA side near where the later attack occurred. Do not know the extent of injuries or have any info indicating these 2 incidents are related.
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(1) NEW: @OUC_DC dispatched fire & EMS to the wrong street for a call this morning at the Giant on Connecticut Ave. Even though @dcfireems rapidly told DC 911 it was a bad address it still took 7 minutes to correct. (more) @CMBrookePinto@SafeDC@MayorBowser
(2) LISTEN: At 9:06 a.m., @OUC_DC dispatched @dcfireems to 4303 Wisconsin Ave. for a disoriented person at Giant. Engine 20 immediately told DC 911 it was a bad address. There's a Giant at 3336 Wisconsin. The dispatcher tried to call the 911 caller but got no answer. (more)
(3) LISTEN: At 9:12 a.m., Engine 20's officer found the correct address of 4303 Connecticut Ave. in the dispatch notes -- but no one alerted them by radio. The dispatcher said a call-taker entered that info. At 9:13 the call was re-dispatched. (more)
(1) @OUC_DC's statement, sent to me without having to file a FOIA (more on that later)!! IMPORTANT note: As usual, OUC won't tell us what the 911 caller said or show location data. This is NOT the transparency Heather McGaffin promised. (more) @CMBrookePinto@SafeDC@MayorBowser
(2) That factual call info & location data were immediately available to @OUC_DC & would help us understand what occurred. Based on OUC's history--recent & more distant--they may not want us to understand. That's because there's a good chance it's more bad news for them. (more)
(3) I base this on the fact Heather McGaffin hasn't provided details or explained what errors were made during numerous blown locations & other problems during her time in charge. Some are listed below. It's a continuation of longstanding @OUC_DC policy to hide bad news. (more)
(1) Why did @OUC_DC send @dcfireems to the 11th St Bridge for a car in the water under the Douglass Bridge? With 3 dead there should be a detailed accounting. Was it caller or call-taker error, or both? Will anyone demand answers? (more) @CMBrookePinto@SafeDC@MayorBowser
(2) LISTEN: At 10:31 p.m. @OUC_DC sent @dcfireems to the 11th Street Bridge for a car in the Anacostia River. The big question is what did the caller say and, if available, what did location data show? Was there more than 1 caller? (more)
(3) LISTEN: It's not clear to me from the available radio traffic when & how @dcfireems finally learned this was actually under the Douglass Bridge -- which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia. But it was a significant number of minutes. (more)
(1) For almost a month, @fairfaxcounty has shared a false narrative surrounding the death of a man at a Reston @wmata station. Despite finally correcting the record on one key part of the story they insist on telling us things happened in a way that they clearly did not. (more)
(2) In order to continue its dubious claim the 10 minute delay caused by sending @ffxfirerescue to the wrong @wmata station is completely Metro's fault, @fairfaxcounty officials want us to ignore what we can all clearly hear in the recording of the call. (more)
(3) Read this from 2 @fairfaxcounty responses Tuesday:
"DPSC requested verification of the address given by the ROCC during the initial call several times".
"Following the second confirmation of the physical address, DPSC dispatched Fairfax County Fire and Rescue (FRD)". (more)
(1) NEW: Remember the botched CPR call to the wrong Reston Metro station? It didn't go down as Fairfax Co. 911 had us believe. A recording of the call by Metro & other data received in a FOIA by @HCBright10 puts doubt on @fairfaxcounty's claim it was all @wmata's fault. (more)
(2) LISTEN: Here's a key moment from the call @wmata made to @fairfaxcounty 911/DPSC. The Metro worker clearly says the correct Metro station. Just as clearly, she gives a bad address. Fairfax County only told us about the bad address. (more)
(3) It took @fairfaxcounty learning yesterday that STATter911 had a recording of the March 20 call before they did the right thing & changed a March 21 statement. It finally corrects wrong info that @wmata reported the emergency was "at the Wiehle Metro Station." (more)
(1) @fairfaxcounty confirms @wmata gave the wrong address for the Reston Town Center #Metro Station. It delayed fire & EMS getting to a man in cardiac arrest. That man died. How did this mistake occur? #WMATA isn't saying but it fits a pattern. (more) @wmataGM
(2) For decades I've reported on Metro's poor communications with 911 centers, firefighters & EMS. Two weeks ago @MetrorailSafety reminded us of this continuing @wmata problem via its investigative report into a Nov. 7 smoke incident at Courthouse. Here's what WMSC wrote: (more)
(3) Multiple sources & radio traffic back @fairfaxcounty's official statement confirming Metro gave the Department of Public Safety Communications (DPSC or 911 center) the wrong address. (more)