Small Fire Causes Evacuation at FEMA Office
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By Debbi Wilgoren
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 3, 2008; 10:03 AM
A small office fire at the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Southwest Washington this morning prompted the brief evacuation of about 200 workers from the building, a D.C. fire department spokesman said.
Spokesman Alan Etter said the 7:30 a.m. fire was confined to one first-floor office and was partially extinguished when the building's sprinkler system was activated. Significant amounts of smoke seeped into the corridor, Etter said, and workers were evacuated from the building at 500 C St. SW for about 50 minutes while firefighters put out the blaze.
Calls to the agency were temporarily rerouted to an operations center in Virginia.
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