Cabin John, MD – 1700 hrs on Tuesday February 24, 2007: the Cabin John Park Fire department responded for the car fire in the 7900 block of 76th street. Engine 710 arrived on scene with Ambulance 710 to find a car fully engulfed in fire. After further investigation, the fire was deemed to have been started by a cigarette that fell in the passenger compartment. Engine 710 quickly mobilized water resources to extinguish the car fire. The automobile fire took a total of one hour to successfully extinguish and clean up. There was irreparable damage to the car but luckily, no one was hurt.
Skill and Serendipity Combine to Save the Day
Cabin John, MD- It was just before eight o’clock on a weekday morning, two days before Christmas, when suddenly without warning the heavens opened onto River Road, or maybe it was Hell heaving skyward.
A 66” water main running from the Washington Sewer and Sanitary Commission’s Potomac Filtration Plant north of the village of Potomac, supplying much of Montgomery County and a portion of Prince George’s County, suddenly broke apart and blew up through the ground spewing 150,000 gallons per minute of treated water skyward!
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