Music and prayer led a celebration on Sunday at Riverside High School to remember 16-year-old Fitz Thomas of Loudoun County.
His mother, Pastor Michelle Thomas, said it was about keeping his memory alive and advocating for change.
“There’s a part of negligence and a part of ineptness and lack of training and care that really played a part in Fitz being denied access to on time emergency services,” Thomas said.
Fitz would have graduated in a couple of weeks.
Three days of events over the weekend included a block party, a memorial walk, a headstone dedication and a celebration service honored his life.
Updated on May 6, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Loudoun County Fire and Rescue
An electric vehicle is believed to have started a fire at a home in Virginia that displaced a family and caused an estimated $235,000 in damage, fire officials say.
A malfunctioning Chevrolet Bolt sparked the blaze Saturday morning in Ashburn, a spokeswoman for Loudoun County Fire and Rescue said an initial investigation found. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
“Fortunately, there were no injuries as a result of the incident,” a Chevy spokesman said. “Working with the local authorities, we will investigate to learn more about the specific situation of this incident.”
Chevy Bolt EV Burns To The Ground In A Place Called Ashburn
May 04, 2021 at 3:41pm ET ++ Another irony is that the final remedy for this issue has just been announced.
GM still owes its customers and the press an answer for what is the manufacturing defect that made the Chevy Bolt EV spontaneously catch fire. A new blaze on May 1 reminds us that the final solutions the company came up with arrived late for another family. Ironically, the Bolt EV burned to the ground in a place called Ashburn.
There’s very little information about the fire apart from what the video above and the Ashburn Volunteer Fire Rescue Department provided. The video came from a person named Bobby Busche. It was shared on the Montgomery County Facebook page. For the record, Montgomery County is in Maryland, which made us wonder why a video from Ashburn, in Virginia, crossed the state borders – and it if really happened where Busche said.
WTOP/Michelle Basch Dr. David Goodfriend, director of the Loudoun County Health Department, gets ready to receive a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. WTOP/Michelle Basch Francis Rath, coordinator of the Loudoun County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), gets his Moderna COVID vaccine. The MRC is made up entirely of volunteers – some with medical experience, and some without. During the pandemic, the county is looking for more volunteers to join. WTOP/Michelle Basch (1/3)
More health care workers are starting to be vaccinated for COVID-19 in Loudoun County, Virginia.
Hospitals in the county began giving frontline workers the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine last week, and on Monday, Loudoun County’s government started a