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Faulty sensor triggers days-long alarm at former Iranian Embassy in DC
Faulty sensor triggers days-long alarm at former Iranian Embassy in DC
It was an alarm that blared at the former Iranian embassy since last Friday night. That’s when D.C. Fire says the original call came in for an alarm going off at the former embassy. FOX 5’s David Kaplan has the story.
WASHINGTON – It was an alarm that blared at the former Iranian embassy since last Friday night.
That’s when D.C. Fire says the original call came in for an alarm going off at the former embassy.
The U.S. State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions preserves and maintains buildings owned by a foreign mission, but no longer occupied by them.
According to the State Department’s website, the U.S. and Iran have had no formal diplomatic relations since 1980.
Faulty sensor triggers days-long alarm at former Iranian Embassy in DC
D.C. Fire was the agency that responded to the building on Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue nearly each time someone called 911 but determined that there was likely no emergency, and couldn’t enter the building until the State Department was able to help them get in.
“As people passed by, they’ve heard an audible alarm at the former embassy, and the fire department has been sent out to investigate,” said Danny McCoy, D.C. Fire’s deputy chief for special operations and homeland security.
McCoy says, in all, six people called 911 in the last few days, typically passersby.
Serena Wiltshire lives nearby and was thankful she couldn’t hear the alarm from her home, but heard it while walking her dog on Massachusetts Avenue.
“When I walked the dog up to Massachusetts Avenue, about a block away from it, I started to hear it,” Wiltshire said.
Faulty sensor triggers days-long alarm at former Iranian Embassy in DC
McCoy says in the case of an active embassy, D.C. Fire is often welcomed in, especially if there’s an emergency, but the process can be slowed a bit when they need to be granted access by another entity.
“Situations like this, when the building is locked up, we can’t get in, we contact the State Department, or the service, and we go through the process of finding out who’s responsible if they can get somebody out to assist us,” McCoy said, while adding fire officials determined there was no emergency when they responded.
Monday, D.C. Fire and the State Department went into the building, determined it was likely a faulty sensor causing the alarm to go off, shut it off, and then left.
D.C. Fire confirmed the alarm went off again overnight.
A State Department spokesperson says the fix is in the works and declined comment on why it took multiple days for the alarm to be shut off.
WASHINGTON – Officials with the Arkansas National Guard said 100 soldiers have been deployed to Washington, D.C.
Officials said the Thursday deployment was of 100 members of the 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team. The deployment is federally funded, they added.
The deployed soldiers are part of a routine rotational relief for members of the Arkansas Guard’s 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, currently in Washington.
They are deployed to assist the metropolitan police force as part of the “D.C. Safe and Beautiful” summer operation, officials said. Duties for the mission include visible presence patrols aimed at reducing crime and maintaining public safety, officials added.
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If and when Trump’s name is removed from the Kennedy Center, you can watch it live – WTOP News
The livestreaming camera is situated across the street from the Kennedy Center in an undisclosed location. Its lens is trained on the front of the building, where the removal is expected take place.
A group opposed to the installation of Donald Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has installed a remote camera so people can watch the removal live if and when it happens. The administration has been ordered to remove Trump’s name by Friday.
The livestreaming camera is situated across the street from the Kennedy Center in an undisclosed location. Its lens is trained on the front of the building, where the removal is expected take place.
Late last month, a federal judge in D.C. ordered Trump’s name be removed from the building and a two-year closure for renovations also be stopped.
“I was actually listening to WTOP in the car. I recorded it because I was so happy when I heard it,” said Chris Raleigh with the group Hands Off the Arts, referring to the announcement that the administration must remove Trump’s name from the building.
The president’s name has already been removed from the official government website and related printed and digital branding.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled that the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees exceeded its authority when it unilaterally rebranded the institution as the “Trump Kennedy Center.” Cooper ruled Trump’s name must be removed by Friday, June 12.
“The president meant it as a symbol of domination, that I am in charge, that this is what I want, and I don’t care what anyone else wants,” said Raleigh.
His group is running the live camera because if Trump’s name is removed in the middle of the night, they will have footage of it and people can see it.
“I think we were all upset as a city and as a country when we saw Trump illegally put his name up there because it’s a memorial to a president who was killed in the line of duty,” Raleigh said.
The judge ruled that Congress created and named the Kennedy Center and that only Congress has the authority to rename it.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Oregon will not participate in President Donald Trump’s upcoming Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C.
Washington state also opted out of the fair, which is organized by Freedom 250, a nonprofit aligned with Trump.
Organizers say all 50 states and U.S. territories will still be represented when the event begins June 25.
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In a statement to KATU, Gov. Tina Kotek’s office said Oregon withdrew because of “the cost of participating in the Fair and growing concerns that the event in Washington, D.C. is shaping up to be a more partisan affair than originally presented.”
Despite the decision, Kotek’s office said the state remains committed to celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary.
“The Governor will still be proudly celebrating America’s semiquincentennial here in Oregon and is looking forward to all of the great exhibitions and events the America 250 Oregon Commission will be planning through the summer and beyond,” the statement said.
The Great American State Fair is scheduled to open June 25 in the nation’s capital as part of celebrations marking the United States’ semiquincentennial.
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