Smoke sends D.C. diners scrambling

December 4, 2019

3 min read

A manager takes quick action after he smells smoke in his restaurant Tuesday night.

Noel聽Kesecker said she didn鈥檛 feel like cooking. She鈥檇 been eating Thanksgiving leftovers all week and couldn鈥檛 bring herself to look at anymore stuffing. And with Christmas around the corner she said it was the cozy twinkling lights hanging through the rooftop windows of 801 Restaurant and Bar that drew her in.

But she wasn鈥檛 expecting firefighters to come stomping up the stairs to the rooftop where she was eating mid-meal.

The steps leading up to the rooftop deck where a manager smelled smoke (Alyssa Royster\最新蜜桃影像)

鈥淚 thought what the heck is going on?鈥� Kesecker recounted wide-eyed.

Though she didn鈥檛 see any fire, she naturally wondered if she should be trying to escape.

鈥淣o one else was moving so I just kind of sat there too. Which I guess doesn鈥檛 sound too smart now that I鈥檓 saying that out loud,鈥� she said.

Fire trucks rushed to the scene after Chris, the General Manager of the restaurant, called 9-1-1. At around 7:00 p.m. he smelled smoke on the second floor of his restaurant, but was unable to pinpoint where it was coming from.

鈥淚t was a different kind of smoke smell like wood or paper burning so I was worried that maybe in the walls there was something on fire,鈥� he said.

Unsure if there was any actual danger, Chris chose to be more safe than sorry.

When the firefighters arrived he advised the department that they didn鈥檛 need to run the hose upstairs just yet knowing that his call might not turn out to be anything major, but the firefighters still did anyway.

The hose firefighters ran up the restaurant stairs with.

Though it may have disrupted and slightly scared his guests, Chris said that he understood that the firefighters were just doing their job, as they weren鈥檛 sure what they would be walking into.

Firefighters thoroughly checked the second floor as well as outside of the building. After investigation, the department informed Chris that they believed the smell was going away, but would still leave a few firefighters on the scene just to be cautious.

The red lights from the fire trucks flash onto the restaurants sign.

Chris said that while the commotion of three fire trucks as well as the fire chief鈥檚 vehicle was drawing a crowd outside of his restaurant, his guests were still eating inside safe and sound.

Alyssa Royster

Hola!
My name is Alyssa Royster, and I am a graduate broadcast journalism student at American University in Washington, D.C.. I鈥檓 excited to be in graduate school because it means getting that much closer to achieving my dream of one day being an anchor on Good Morning America or NBC News. I aspire to be the next Katie Couric and Hoda Kotb. A little bit about me is that I spent a year abroad in Argentina where I became fluent in Spanish, I鈥檓 bubbly, and love to hear and tell people鈥檚 stories.

View all posts

最新蜜桃影像