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By CLAIRE ANDERSON
PUBLISHED: 00:12, Sat, Apr 13, 2019 | UPDATED: 08:14, Sat, Apr 13, 2019
Photos taken at the scene show security personnel with a person on the ground. Police and
amublance crews are in attendance. Nicholas Kristof, a columnist with the New York Times, said:
“Someone apparently set himself on fire in front of the White House just now. I was coming out of
the West Wing, and the Secret Service isn’t letting anyone out onto Pennsylvania Ave. They say
there were also suspicious packages.
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“The whole area in front of the White House is now secured. Nobody coming in, and we aren’t
allowed out.”
The Secret Service said on Twitter: “ALERT: Secret Service personnel are responding to a
police/medical incident on Pennsylvania Ave. along the WhiteHouse North Fence Line.”
They said: "A male subject operating an electronic wheelchair-type scooter lit his outer jacket on
fire while sitting along Pennsylvania Ave. outside the North Fence Line. Uniformed Division
Officers immediately responded, extinguished the fire and rendered first aid.
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"The male subject has been transported to a local hospital with what appears to be non-life
threatening injuries."
However, Daniel Kingery, a 57-year-old voter rights activist, said the man was holding up his
burning jacket and recording the incident, which appeared to be a demonstration.
Mr Gingery said: ”He wasn't obeying their order to put it down, so it was definitely some sort of a
protest.
“The Secret Service put out the fire, knocked him out of the scooter, and dragged him to a statue
in nearby Lafayette Square where other officials were waiting.”
President Donald Trump was in the White House but not in danger, a CNN reporter said (Image: GETTY)
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The Secret Service closed Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrian traffic,
and a nearby block of 17th Street was closed as well.
News video showed emergency medical personnel arriving to tend to a person who police had
surrounded on the ground.
President Donald Trump was in the White House but not in danger, a CNN reporter said on
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