StreetSense Media received comments and information from Dr. Ami Angell on a fire that displaced several homeless individuals near Union Station in 2020.
A massive fire at a homeless encampment in the NoMa neighborhood consumed three tents on April 8. No one was injured, according to The Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department.
The fire broke out shortly before 1:30 p.m. beneath the train tracks in the 200 block of L Street Northeast. The billowing black smoke could be seen from Shaw, a Twitter user wrote. It was all but extinguished in less than 15 minutes.
“Our investigators were not able to determine a specific cause, so the fire has been listed as undetermined,” the department’s public information officer said. Street Sense Media has filed a public records request for the FEMS incident report.