In September 2014, a knife-carrying man jumped a fence and ran into the White House itself in one of the worst security breaches during Obama's tenure. Jeffrey Adams, from the US Secret Service told The Sun: 'Today at approximately 12.20 pm, a male individual lit himself on fire while on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave.

The shooting followed several incidents that raised questions about the Secret Service's performance. The Secret Service and Park Police responded to a report of a. 'Everyone in the White House is safe and accounted for,' a White House official said. A man who set himself on fire near the White House has died, according to the United States Park Police. The Secret Service, which also guards other top dignitaries, said all those under its protection were safe, but it did not say if Obama's family was home at the time. 'A couple officers drew their guns, went right at him and within two or three seconds we heard a gunshot,' Polivka said. those who dont recognize that they too are living in a burning house. 'When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a Secret Service agent and taken into custody,' the statement said.The man was taken to hospital in critical condition, the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department said.Ī man who appeared to be in his mid-20s walked to a gate of the White House holding a silver-colored gun pointed at the ground, said Brett Polivka, a 26-year-old visitor from Texas who was near the south side of the White House. On Earth Day, April 22, a fifty-year-old man from Boulder, Colorado, Wynn Bruce. when uniformed Secret Service officers ordered him to stop and drop the weapon, the Secret Service said in a statement. Most residents were able to evacuate on their own, but the brother of a third-floor tenant tells Eyewitness News his brother and sister-in-law jumped from the window.A man carrying a gun approached a checkpoint shortly after 3 p.m. The man, identified as Arnav Gupta of Bethesda, Maryland, set himself on fire Wednesday. The US Secret Service said the man, who was riding an electronic wheelchair-type scooter. A man who set himself on fire near the White House has died of his injuries, U.S. Nine months earlier, a pilot died when he crashed a small aircraft on the South Lawn of the White House. THE White House was put on lockdown tonight after a man set himself on FIRE outside Donald Trumps home. Police cruisers are seen rushing to the park as the. The house was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived. In 1995, a man scaled the White House fence carrying an unloaded gun. Video posted on Twitter shows the man engulfed in flames near the Ellipse, a park located south of the White House, the New York Post reports. White Plains Police Commissioner David Chong said police were on the scene in less than 30 seconds and firefighters in under a minute. A still from a video shows a police officer extinguishing a man who set himself on fire on the Ellipse across from the White House, in Washington, DC, USA. The blaze broke out as the three-story house on Hale Avenue just before 8 a.m., and fire officials say breezy conditions helped the flames spread quickly. WHITE PLAINS, Westchester County (WABC) - A fast-moving fire gutted a multi-family home in White Plains Tuesday morning, and at least one person jumped from a third-floor window to escape the flames.

A fast-moving fire gutted a multi-family home in White Plains Tuesday, and at least one person jumped from a third-floor window to escape the flames.

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