Another person dies in house fire after alarms fail to alert Detroit firefighters

For the second time in five days, someone died in a house fire after Detroit firefighters were delayed because their alert systems malfunctioned.

By the time firefighters arrived to the blaze on Detroit’s east side at 1 a.m. today, there was little they could do as flames rolled through the house at 2069 Lawley near I-75 and the Davison Freeway. Firefighters said they lost critical time because the systems that alert them to fires did not work.

On Saturday morning, the alert systems also failed to work at Engine 1’s quarters downtown, causing a four-minute delay as a 73-year-0ld man burned to death in a house fire on Commonwealth in the blossoming neighborhood of Woodbridge.

The alert systems have been malfunctioning sporadically, but Mayor Mike Duggan’s office said the alarms were working properly when they were tested this morning. The administration is investigating, but firefighters said no one has talked to them about the system failures.

At the Lawley blaze, firefighters found the body of a male at 1:30 a.m. with about a third of his body burned.

“When firefighters were able to enter the structure, they found the body of a white male, 41, who apparently had been squatting illegally in the house,” Duggan spokesman Dan Austin said. “While the cause of the fire is being determined, the house had an illegal electrical hook up, which may have contributed to the start of the fire.
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The cause of death has not yet been determined.”

The house was in foreclosure.

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Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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