Knowledge is that its still smoky here. And this began around 11 50 last night. So many be many hours later, and still is going. Now, i also a little while ago there was another large bang as my photography and i were standing here. And we asked some of the crews were on scene what that was all about. Of they said they were still investigating. It is been going on for quite some time here. But we still havent been able to find out exactly what the cause of it. Lets show you the video from dc fire and ems rather impressive when the fire crews got on the scene, knowing it was an underground transformer fire right in front of the nordstrom. Black smoke and bright orange flames shooting up. Dc fire and ems couldnt do much except try to contain the fire and make sure there wasnt anybody who perhaps was in ng overnight. Of they called for pepco crews to come out. Took a good half hour for them to get here and turn off the power. Maybe an hour this fire burned and dc fire could get in there a
In the evening is when dc fire and ems crews responded to the scene. I also want you to take a look just beyond the smoke there at the door, and very top part of the building there, what youre seeing, look at that soot that is completely staying right where the smoke and flames were shooting upwards. Lets take you now to video that dc fire and ems shots when they were here on scene to also very impressive, scary. Let you know this is an underground transformer fire. Very big flames here. Theres a lot of, from what i understand be those transformers have a lot of oil in them. Thats what burns so much, when you perhaps have a corroded wire. That sparked that flame. There wasnt much dc fire could do until pepco fire got here on scene. It says about 12 56 is when they finally arrived on the scene to almost an hour past before the power was cut off before dc fire could get in there and put the flame retardant and get the fire out. We still had the smoking going on for hour upon hour after t
This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. Right now at 10 00, a fifth body pulled from the rubble at the scene of an apartment explosion in Silver Springs. Are the buildings Still Standing safe . Details on gas line testing in the area. Running red lights. An investigation uncovered metro rails Alarming Number of red line violations. Whats being done to stop it. And keep you safe. Plus, some powerful storms blew through the area, knocking over trees. Are we at risk for more as the heat wave continues . Fox 5 news at 10 00 starts right now. We do begin with the heavy rain thats been pouring down across parts of the dc region. Im tony perkins im shawn yancy. The storms are creating problems in maryland. Trees fell over several areas including here near the olney town street. We want to standing by. Reporter tony and shawn, were going to have to keep rain in the forecast little bit longer, i dont have severe storms at 10 00, but a lot of rain pounding down, and of course, the evening storms, whi
Morning, taking a live lack on the wilson bridge, traffic moving pretty well. Details coming up in just a bit. Good morning, im wisdom martin, im maureen umeh. Of erin como talking traffic. We got news to talk about. He dont on that transformer fire in downtown washington, dc it was quite a scene. Heres footage shot by dc fire and ems, place threatening everything. Fox 5 Melanie Al Nick is on the scene. Reporter were talking about that bank that happened a little before 4 30. They are investigating to try to figure out what exactly that was. Of we saw sparks but fortunately no flames shooting up from the sidewalk. We do still see smart phone rising here, and this is almost first began. But go back to the dc fire and ems video, really impressive flames there, oranges and almost blues in a way shooting up from the street from this underground transformer fire. They were worried about it threatening the buildings nearby, and also they had to go into some of those adjacent building, check