Smoking is bad for you (Fire at Capitol Lounge)

Capitol Lounge in better days.

Overheard someone saying that the fire started with a discarded cigarette in a trash can. The first floor seems ruined. I'm sure that they'll rebuild. The weekend breakfasts will be missed. Puts a different take on the proposed smoking ban in restaurants... By the time I left the block, trucks were already there, breaking apart and removing the burned materials discarded on the sidewalk. There's a chance that photos may have been taken of firefighters putting out the fire. If so they likely will be posted at www.dcfd.com.

Best wishes to Joe Englert and his team on pulling Capitol Lounge back together.








Artwork by Robert McClintock.