Fires Consume Tire Shop, Strip Club in D.C.

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A PLUME OF BLACK SMOKE hovered over the city on Monday afternoon as fire fighters battled against a tough-to-extinguish blaze at a tire store.

The response to the fire, pictured at right, forced the closure of a number of streets around Jimmy's Tire Shop in Trinidad, where Florida Avenue intersects 12th and K streets NE. One firefighter was treated and released from a hospital after a fall, The Post's William Wan reports.

Across town, an overnight fire in Glover Park caused severe damage to J.P.'s strip club on Wisconsin Avenue, The Post's Howard Schneider and Debbi Wilgoren report. Morning traffic is expected to be diverted around the scene of the fire, which also damaged two neighboring businesses.

Also this morning, a fire broke out at the Iron Castle Lounge on Annapolis Road near Landover Road in Prince George's County.

» "Fire Destroys Tire Store, Leaves Stock Smoldering" [WaPo]
» "Fires at Nightclubs, Tire Shop Block Commuter Arteries" [WaPo]

Photo by Gerald Martineau/The Washington Post