The blaze is the latest indignity in the stadium's long decline.
By 6:30 PM the department said it had extinguished “several fires” and was looking for more. No one, it said, had been hurt.
Indeed, the arena has sat empty for years, and its eventual disposition has vexed officials. DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has called the site the “.” Various plans to bring the Washington Commanders back to the site have gone exactly nowhere. Others wish for housing on the site–that hasn’t happened, either.
RFK has served as home to 11 college and pro teams. Its last big-name tenant was D.C. United, whose team members and staff. It previously hosted the Washington Nationals, who arrived at the crumbling site before the 2005 season to discover birds in the offices and flooding.
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