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189-1-1. What is your emergency?

Hey, I think it's a house fire at 3201 Woodland Drive.

Got smoke coming out of the ease and the window.

Repeat the yes again.

It's 3201 Woodland Drive.

It's 124 on May 14, 2015.

It was pure chance that Donald Spence found himself at the front door of a burning house in northwest Washington, D.C. that afternoon.

He just finished a job installing wallpaper at a house in the neighborhood.

It was the kind of neighborhood you might want to walk around it, full of beautiful old houses, some might consider the mansions, each with its own ornate style and manicured green lawn.

The neighborhood is tucked away behind D.C.'s famed Embassy Row.

The home of the Australian Ambassador is right there across the street, and the Vice President's official residence residence just a few blocks away i just drove up

saw the building and it's torn out the uh overhang okay from which floor is the part's coming from

it's coming from it looks like it initially from a bedroom but it's going sweeping across the whole

overhang on the front of the house this is private house private house, single house? It's a private mansion.

Benz had just finished eating his lunch in his truck, and he was about to head home.

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