WASHINGTON — Fire investigators have determined that a dumpster fire that spread to a historic building in D.C.'s Tenelytown neighborhood Monday night was intentionally set.
The six other outside fires that DC Fire crews responded to following the fire at the historic building have been deemed suspicious and are under investigation, three of which were in Tenelytown and the other three were in Georgetown/Glover Park.
In a tweet Friday, officials announced the arrest of a person connected to the fires but did not go into further detail.
DC Fire and EMS first tweeted about the fire at 6:30 p.m. Monday, which was burning in a dumpster in the 4400 block of Wisconsin Avenue, Northwest.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire had extended to an adjacent commercial building. The fire spread to the first and second floors of the building.
The fire department said the flames were under control shortly before 7:30 p.m. Fire officials said there were additional fires in the immediate area that were also extinguished.
DC Fire & EMS work to put out four fires along the 4400 block of Wisconsin Ave
“When we were battling this fire, we received calls for three additional trash fires in the vicinity,” said Vito Maggiolo, public information officer for DC Fire and EMS. “We sent units to all three of those and extinguished them with no structural involvement. So our investigators are here, and they’re going to be conducting an active investigation into the circumstances of these several fires.”
The building that was on fire is decorated with murals. The fire department said the building was built in 1887 and is the oldest in the Grant Road Historic District. One of the murals depicted the Tenleytown firehouse in the horse-drawn era.
No injuries were reported.
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