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       SMITHSONIAN FIRE TODAY (2/7/11)
   DIR By: wolfie
       Date: February 7, 2011, 11:53 am
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       Posted at 8:46 AM ET, 02/ 7/2011
       Fire near Natural History Museum
       By Washington Post Editor
       A fire in an outbuilding of the National Museum of Natural
       History complex sent a thick plume of gray smoke onto
       Washington's skyline Monday morning, disrupting rush-hour
       traffic along the National Mall.
       The fire was in a building in the museum complex that contains
       heating and air conditioning equipment. No one was injured, and
       the museum exhibits did not appear to be in any danger.
       The fire was reported about 7:40 a.m., D.C. deputy fire chief
       Kenneth Crosswhite said. Nearly a dozen fire trucks and other
       emergency vehicles converged on the museum, at 10th Street and
       Constitution Avenue NW. The fire was mostly extinguished by 8
       a.m., and the equipment began to leave the scene about 8:40 a.m.
       While the fire was being fought, the 9th Street Tunnel was
       closed at Constitution Avenue, along with Madison Drive and 12th
       Street, southbound 7th Street and eastbound Constitution between
       8th and 10th streets.
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       Re: SMITHSONIAN FIRE TODAY (2/7/11)
   DIR By: Diable Fire
       Date: February 8, 2011, 12:58 am
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       I have been to the National History Museum many times and i hate
       to think of what was destroyed.
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