Arthur Capper Senior Building

It’s likely that someone who didn’t belong inside a public housing complex for D.C. seniors started the massive blaze that destroyed it, federal investigators found, but because of factors that include bungled building security, they might…

Federal investigators criticized D.C.'s fire chief for denying access to a senior citizen apartment complex after a devastating fire ripped through the building near Navy Yard in Southeast in September.

Two months after the fire took everything, a group of seniors gathered in a District ballroom to break bread and give thanks in the spirit of the holiday.

It’s supposed to rain again on Friday, and all Carlton Moxley can think about is his stuff: several guitars, drums, clothes, and irreplaceable family jewelry lying under the swollen, fire-damaged, caved-in roof at the Arthur Capper Senior…

WASHINGTON — The owner and the management company of Arthur Capper Senior Apartments declined to attend a fact-finding hearing held Thursday by D.C. officials parsing city response to a fire that displaced some 160 residents last month.

The D.C. Council on Thursday grilled the city’s emergency response departments over the evacuation of a Southeast senior home during a three-alarm fire last month. One the home’s resident was left behind. Council member Charles Allen…

It was nearly a month ago that fire drove about 160 residents from their homes at the Arthur Capper Senior Apartments near the Navy Yard, and the displaced seniors are yearning to know where they'll have new places to call home.

When thinking about what she may have lost in the fire that destroyed much of her apartment building, Ruth Rorls’s mind goes straight to the box on the tall bookshelf. It contains an American flag given to her in 2002 after the death of her…

AT 10:45 P.M. last Wednesday, hours after fire broke out at a senior housing complex in Southeast Washington, a member of the company that manages the property delivered the news that all the elderly residents had been accounted for. “ ‘By…

The management company that operates the senior apartment complex in Southeast Washington that burned last week has launched an internal investigation following reports of several safety deficiencies, according to a company representative.

A 74-year-old man was found alive Monday in a senior housing complex that burned in Southeast Washington last week and forced the evacuation of more than 100 occupants, according to two people familiar with the investigation.

WASHINGTON — D.C. Fire and EMS crews are working over the weekend to secure the Arthur Capper Senior building, a Southeast D.C. senior housing complex that caught fire Wednesday, displacing around 160 people from their homes. Damage to the…

A large apartment complex that caught fire Wednesday remains so unstable that investigators have been unable to enter and determine what went wrong inside, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said Friday during a news conference outside the charred husk…

You could still smell the evidence Thursday morning of what happens when fire alarms do not work. Residents of a seniors housing complex on the edge of the Capitol Hill-Navy Yard neighborhoods learned that lesson Wednesday, when the upper…

On Thursday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after the fire began at the Arthur Capper Senior Housing complex (900 Fifth St. SE), a strong smell of smoke still hung in the air. Fire hoses lay limp around the building’s perimeter and blue sky…

The call that crackled through the Marine Barracks’ radio system Wednesday wasn’t a cry for help. It was a warning. But Capt. Trey Gregory didn’t hear it that way. He followed the scream of fire engines about a third of a mile to the Arthur…

WASHINGTON — Investigators will examine why fire alarms did not sound as a huge fire broke out in a four-story apartment complex for senior citizens Wednesday afternoon near the Washington Navy Yard.  Although smoke detectors worked in…

A major fire broke out at an apartment complex for seniors in Southeast Washington on Wednesday afternoon, forcing firefighters, bystanders and Marines to rescue residents, officials said. The fire sent flames and black smoke shooting from…