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The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film Licensed to Kill. [1] [2]
The city's fleet was aging and in constant repair. Several fire stations were closed because they had no equipment with which to fight fires. [13] Despite the delivery of a few trucks and engines in 2000, the department still needed to replace at least $7 million worth of old vehicles. [10] Two scandals were also hurting the department.
In 1727, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, then governor of the Province of Maryland, awarded a land grant for present-day Mount Pleasant to James Holmead. This estate, later named "Pleasant Plains", included the territory of present-day neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Meridian Hill, and Pleasant Plains (which only covers a portion of the original estate of the same name).
A DCFD fire engine in December 2005. DCFD Engine Company #23 (Foggy Bottom Firehouse) DCFD Engine 7 On January 13, 1803, District of Columbia passed its first law about fire control, requiring the owner of each building in the district to provide at least one leather firefighting bucket per story or pay a $1 fine per missing bucket.
Firefighters in Washington, D.C., on Friday battled a three-alarm fire that started in a three-story former firehouse under renovation near the U.S. Capitol. DC Fire and EMS said one firefighter ...
Luigi Mangione faces charges in state and federal court in New York in the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. ... Mangione was arrested at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona on Dec. 9 ...
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