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1891, Woodland Street, Merchant Seek.

I think that the house fire at 3201 Woodland Drive.

You have smoke coming out of the ease and the window. Repeat this again.

It's 3201 Woodland Drive.

It's 124 on May 14th, 2015.

It was pure chance that Donald Spence found himself at the front door of a burning house in Northwest Washington, DC 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 in, 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 DC's famed Embassy Row.

The home of the Australian Ambassador is right there across the street,

and the vice-president's official residence is to few blocks away.

I just drove up to the building and it's pouring out of the overhang.

Okay, from which floor is the part coming from?

It's coming from the looks I get initially from a bedroom, but it's going sweeping across the whole overhang on the front of the house.

This is the private house thing of the house. It's a private mansion.

Ben's had just finished eating his lunch in his truck and he was about to head home.

Boarded by taking the same turns on the same streets for weeks,

he decided on a whim to take a new way out of the neighborhood.

That decision took him right past the house with smoke pouring out of its leaves.

Okay, I've ordered a center part of the apartment, that's 3201 woodland drive northwest.

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