As the Detroit Fire Department sinks into a deeper funding crisis, placing more lives in danger, Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration is cracking the whip on firefighters who accept donations or speak to the media.
Detroit firefighters took no chances when they summoned a hazardous materials team to a west-side house that was teeming with pot plants.
Investigators aren’t sure what caused the blazes, some of which broke out in occupied homes.
Firefighters found a body inside the historic El Tovar apartment building shortly before 9 p.m. tonight.
Firefighters were called to the five-story brick building at Harper near Gratiot at 6:45 a.m. when they spotted fire on the fourth floor.
The car erupted in flames just before paramedics arrived.
The brother of the victim found the body in the basement, still soaked from when the house was hosed down.
The former four-star hotel is now a dingy apartment with cheap rent.
A witness said the speeding car exploded on impact.
After an arsonist struck the eighth Heidelberg Project house in a little over a year last month, the nonprofit finally captured surveillance video of a suspect setting fire to the Taxi House on Mt. Elliot. The Metro Times reports that the Heidelberg Project released a video that shows the arsonist pouring a flammable liquid in the rear […]