On any given night, officers arrive to work with a backlog of cases that would be a priority in most cities. But police are overwhelmed with murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and armed robberies.
These neighborhoods could be any in Detroit – neglected and cluttered with abandoned homes.
It was another bad night in Detroit: Two dead. Another suspected arson. No law enforcement.
Detroit firefighters began evacuating residents this evening after someone spotted a suspicious gray box with a blinking red light and wires tied to a pole.
The Detroit Fire Department is dangerously close to running out of trucks and engines to respond to fires because the aging, overrun fleet is breaking down faster than mechanics can make repairs
An explosion at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Detroit sent rolling plumes of smoke and toxic chemicals into the air Saturday evening, prompting police in gas masks to shut off streets and evacuate residents and businesses.
A 55-year-old man was killed in a manhole while looking for scrap metal in Detroit on March 24. Firefighters and other rescue personnel spent more than an hour removing the body from the narrow underground tunnel at East Grand Boulevard and Chene. Police said a woman told authorities that her boyfriend was looking for scrap […]
Brian Baulch never saw the wall collapse. Cascading bricks knocked the 31-year-old unconscious and buried him in a heap of debris.
Victims of two house fires waited between 25-45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.
Owner Larry Mongo suffered cuts and bruises after confronting the vandals on the roof of the two-story building, he said today.