Personal cars. They did not know the feds were watching. The federal government fleet of 200,000 vehicles use about 500 million of fuel per year. Some of those cars are least to the d. C. Fire department. According to Court Records 26year veteran Kimberly Pinkney used a work vehicle gas card to buy 11,333 worth of fuel for her personal car at various d. C. Gas stations. She admitted asthma much because she had a child in college and had been cut hours on her parttime job. She said she was ashamed of her conduct. The Inspector General with ngs saysa they are keeping a close eye on these accounts. We do want to get the word out. There is a good chance you could lose your job and get prosecuted. 31yearold Terrell Mccray was caught on the same charge. He illegally pumped over 2000 worth of fuel into his jaguar and even sold gas to friends and acquaintances, because he needed cash, because he was broke, and needed money to get to work and eat lunch. We should note that both Fire Department
Have initially sent far more than simply a single fire engine. Fire ambulance exact location of your emergency . Fire alarm at 936 childs point road. 936 childs point . Yes, sir. You can hear the call taker as the Alarm Company called in the first report. It says first and second floor Smoke Detector and basement. Reporter and the dispatcher sending a single engine. 811, engine 351 responding alarm sounding. Reporter it was not until two or three minutes later after a anybody called that dispatchers sent a full complement of firefighters, four engines, a ladder truck, battalion chief, two tankers and a paramedic unit. I mean the whole hastiest fire. Reporter was it appropriate just to send a single engine to this call . Sure. Thats a standard report in Anne Arundel County. Reporter at least one expert says this house is screaming that it was on fire, don and sandy pyle and their four young grandchildren all died in the blaze. He says you have fire alarms going off on the second floor,
Feel like 0 or below. The lows tonight will be in the teens across the entire metro area. 19 downtown, 16 in sterling, 15 in leesburg, 17 in rockville. Well come back, look ahead to our sunday, monday storm. Tonight some firefighters are questioning the First Response to that deadly mansion fire in annapolis. The fire alarms rang in the basement, first and second floors and Anne Arundel County initially sent one fire engine to check out the fire. Reporter im bruce leshan in annapolis. The Anne Arundel County Fire Department now engaged in an after action investigation trying to determine if it could have responded better to the fire in this mansion that ended up killing don and sandy pyle and their four grandchildren. Fire and ambulance, exact location of your emergency. Fire alarm at 936 childs point road. Reporter you can hear the call taker as the Alarm Company called in the first report. It says first and second floor Smoke Detector and basement Smoke Detector. Reporter and the dis
Million on something and then say oh we dont want to do it anymore. Somebody needs to be replaced. The mayor doesnt seem to like the idea. I support it for the ability to move people but i also support it for its ability to attract Economic Development to areas that need it the most. But she added she didnt want a system thats unsafe or doesnt work. Trying to look at this in a very unbiassed objective way to provide her first class recommendation and i feel confident i can do that. She says that currently, the consultant is interviewing everybody connected with the project and he is awaiting a 45 day analysis. Meantime, this streetcar that was supposed to have opened last year is still not opening. The streetcars are going up and down eighth street practicing for that opening day that may never come. Reporting live from northeast washington, sam ford abc 7 news. Now, the streetcar questions come during a decline in Public Transit use in this area and thats actually against a national t
To their destination. Well have updates on their condition and whats next for the passengers as soon as we get them. Pat, back to you. A longtime d. C. Fire official has admitted cheating taxpayers out of 11,000 worth of gasoline. Kimberly pinkney pleaded guilty today to fraud. Her story was first revealed in the news4 iteam investigation. Today she told a judge she was guilty of using a taxpayerfunded government fleet card to buy gas for her personal car. Shell be ordered to pay that money back. Though she could face prison time when sentenced in may. Attorneys discussed the possibility of probation only in her case. Pinkney has since quit her job. More now on a story we first reported on news 4 middaya house fire in calvert county. One person was injured and the house is a total loss. This is along lake shore drive not far from solomons islands road. Chopper 4 was over the scene shortly after firefighters arrived around 10 30 today. According to zillow the home is worth about 400,000