Woman dead after fire in Southeast DC apartment building

By Anagha Srikanth
November 11, 2019 | 3:45 PM

A woman who died following a fire in a southeast D.C. apartment Monday morning has been identified as Kim Day.

D.C. Fire said they responded to a blaze in a second-floor apartment on Buena Vista Terrace around 7:15 a.m.

Firefighters rescued Day from the apartment then took her to the hospital with critical injuries, where she later died.

Day was an Army veteran in her 50s, NBC Washington reported.

The fire was put out before it spread to any other apartments and no other injuries were reported.

An investigation into how the fire started is ongoing.

Below is a map of the area where the fire happened.

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WTOP’s Will Vitka contributed to this report.

National Museum of the American Latino to be housed in historic Smithsonian building

By Neal Augenstein
September 1, 2026 | 10:36 AM

The Smithsonian Institution has decided to put the National Museum of the American Latino into an existing, historic building, rather than constructing a new one. The Smithsonian Board of Regents on Monday designated the Arts and Industries Building, a 145-year-old redbrick Victorian structure located between the Smithsonian Castle and the Hirshhorn Museum, as the permanent site of the National Museum of the American Latino, which Congress authorized in 2020. In 2022, the Smithsonian narrowed its survey for permanent locations for the National Museum of the American Latino and the American Women's History Museum to four locations near the National Mall on land owned by the National Park Service. The Arts and Industries Building, located at 900 Jefferson St. SW, was one of the four sites. New construction on National Park Service land would require congressional approval. However, since the Smithsonian already owns the Arts and Industries Building, the institution can place the National Museum of the American Latino in the existing building without additional legislation.

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