Firefighters, neighbors rescue 4 unattended children from burning home in Detroit
The children – ages 4, 6, 8 and 11 – were home alone when the fire broke out at 5236 Cecil.
The children – ages 4, 6, 8 and 11 – were home alone when the fire broke out at 5236 Cecil.
The Detroit Medical Society claimed it had no idea the house was up for foreclosure and said members invested more than $400,000 into the building.
Fire tore through the house on Heidelberg Street after investigators believe the home was doused in gas.
After enduring decades of abandonment and vandalism, the Packard Plant is coming back to life.
Bidding ends today on two art-festooned houses and a vacant lot adorned with installations.
Perhaps no t-shirt better summarizes Detroit’s popularity right now – “Detroit is the new black.”
The nonprofit collected more than $50,000 for security last year, but that wasn’t enough.
Although bands such as Death, MC5 and The Stooges rocked out a few generations ago, there is still a bevy of power chords and in-your-face punk rock hiding in small gatherings around the city.
The beautiful Romanesque Revival home is just three blocks east of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
How’s this for a sign of the times?