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D.C. Fire officials went door to door Wednesday offering home inspections and smoke detectors, after a series of fires in the District the day before forced dozens of people out of their homes.

Residents in one Northwest D.C. community are seeing red when it comes to a stop sign camera that’s been there for years. The News4 I-Team found a nearly 2,000% jump in tickets since the District upgraded the camera to a newer model. “It’s an enforcement tool that’s penalizing people for living in this area,” said Renee Bowser, an advisory...

Residents in one D.C. neighborhood are seeing red when it comes to a stop sign camera that’s been there for years. The News4 I-Team found a nearly 2,000% jump in tickets. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer spoke with neighbors who question whether that camera is really there to slow drivers down or make the District fast money.

A man and a woman died Thursday after a fire broke out in a Northwest Washington, D.C., rowhome without smoke detectors, authorities say. The blaze erupted at the two-story house on Eighth Street near Upshur Street NW in the Petworth neighborhood, D.C. Fire and EMS said. Both victims were senior citizens. Firefighters were called about 2:50 a.m. and found...

A family and community in D.C. is mourning after two grandparents who had been married for 64 years died in an early morning house fire. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

Two senior citizens were pronounced dead Thursday after a fire in a rowhouse in the Petworth neighborhood, officials said. News4’s Justin Finch reports live.

At least seven people were displaced by a fire that damaged two row houses in the Petworth neighborhood in Northwest D.C. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.