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Flawed security at the White House?
It happened around 5 p.m. Monday, the man scaled the six-foot high fence. When he landed on the other side, the uniformed Secret Service pounced. There's no word on what this man wanted - or what another man had in mind when he torched himself outside the White House on newly re-opened Pennsylvania Avenue.
Witnesses say the Secret Service put the flames out in about a minute, using a fire extinguisher. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Alan Etter says the man is 52 and suffered serious burns to his head, back, arms and face. But he was conscious when medics took him to Washington Hospital Center. Etter also says there was evidence of an ignitable liquid at the scene.
Tourists from Florida with a video camera caught the incident on tape, which they turned the tape over to the Secret Service.
Does this mean that security at the White House still has room for improvement? And if so, to what extent?