Firefighters in D.C. worked quickly to extinguish a two-alarm fire at a Northwest D.C. luxury hotel.
Crews with DC Fire and EMS were called to the 900 block of F Street Northwest in the Penn Quarter neighborhood for a report of a fire around 4 a.m. Friday. Once firefighters got on scene, they found a 10-story building, the Riggs Washington hotel, with fire in the walls and the ceiling of a sixth floor room in the building that had extended to the seventh floor. A second-alarm was called to get more firefighters to the scene to help extinguish the flames and evacuate people from the building.
In a tweet, DC Fire and EMS estimated about 100 firefighters and 20 fire trucks responded to the scene.
Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for the department, could not say whether the fire was caused by severe weather in the area Thursday night.