Early raw video: Two-alarm apartment fire in Washington, DC. Another city leader takes a fall in the Nation's Capital, but the fires keep getting put out.
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The big local news in your Nation’s Capital today is the announcement of criminal charges against another city official. This time it’s Kwame Brown, the Chairman of the District of Columbia City Council. Reports indicate that Brown is about to resign that post after being accused of bank fraud (read details).
Brown is the second City Council member to face such action in the past few months. Mayor Vincent Gray remains under investigation. Two top officials in Gray’s campaign entered guilty pleas in recent weeks over some funny business going on during the 2010 mayoral race.
As for Brown, the handwriting was on the wall as soon as he took over as chairman in January 2011. That’s when he received the nickname “fully loaded” after the city SUV assigned to him failed meet Brown’s standards and he made the city order a new one.
Despite this ugly chapter in the city’s local political history, the average city worker keeps doing the job they are assigned to do. Among them are the members of the DC Fire & EMS Department. Here’s evidence of it today during a fire at 209 61st Street, NE.
