A Ward 5 advisory neighborhood commissioner’s car was set ablaze early Friday outside her home in Northeast, leaving a hulk of metal but a no-less-determined D.C. Council candidate.

Kathy Henderson, a victim of harassment in the past, was awakened at 3:15 a.m. by the bright flames shooting from her 1991 Mercury Capri convertible. All that’s left now is the frame and four tires.