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WASHINGTON — Tuesday, two D.C. ambulances caught fire during emergency responses — one in Southeast and another at the Washington Hospital Center.
Fire crews were sent to the 4700 block of Benning Road SE Tuesday to extinguish the blaze around 9:30 a.m. outside an apartment building. There’s no word on the cause, but the fire was in the engine compartment.
Two firefighters left the ambulance unattended while working on a patient, Chief Kenneth Ellerbe said. The department put out a reminder in June not to leave units running unattended.
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