Video: Law enforcement officer gets rough with photographer
A Detroit law enforcement official appeared to assault a photographer who was obeying orders and retreating at a fire scene on the west side.
Firefighters vs. photographers: Tensions flare over arsons, First Amendment rights
In the past two months, photographers in Detroit have been briefly detained, cursed at by firefighters and intentionally sprayed with water. Another photographer’s phone was smashed.
Finally! Detroit Fire Department to buy new aerial ladder trucks, squads, pumpers
Just days after Motor City Muckraker reported that the purchase of the rigs had become entangled in bureaucratic delays, the city gave the Fire Department the green light to begin accepting bids for new rigs this month.
Bureaucratic delays prevent purchase of desperately needed fire trucks in Detroit
“It’s ridiculous. We simply don’t have enough rigs to cover the city,” said Mike Nevin, president of the Detroit Fire Firefighters Association.
SUV full of high school students flips over, nearly strikes Masonic Temple in Detroit
The students were leaving nearby Cass Tech High School when the crash happened.
Suspicious fire tore through former Detroit library designed by Louis Kamper
The Italian Renaissance building first housed a library in 1911 along a once-vibrant stretch of Gratiot.
Photo gallery: Capturing the frontline of Detroit’s fire crisis
For the past three years, Motor City Muckraker photographed fires in Detroit as part of a project to reveal the widespread damage caused by the city’s arson epidemic.
How 10,000+ fires devoured Detroit neighborhoods over the past 3 years
An interactive map shows where each of the 10,000 fires occurred between 2013 and 2015.
Kalamazoo shooter: Uber app made me kill and ‘act like a puppet’
The Kalamazoo killer said the Uber app resembled a “devil” with a “horned cow head.”
Three charged in brutal murder of Detroit firefighter at his home
Three people were charged Friday in connection with the brutal murder of Detroit firefighter David Madrigal.