House fire spreads after every hydrant in Detroit neighborhood fails
A firefighter delivered the dreaded news: “We can’t find any working hydrants.”
A firefighter delivered the dreaded news: “We can’t find any working hydrants.”
The Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed the 41-year prison sentence of Mario Willis.
Entire neighborhoods were without fire protection, forcing skeleton crews to battle blazes that spread to four occupied homes and contributed to the injury of a firefighter.
Detroit’s top brass is determined to protect a firefighter who raised $10,000+ after his house was gutted by a blaze that caused two injuries under suspicious circumstances.
On the day that Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration disputed our 18-month investigation into the city’s dangerously defective fire engines and ladder trucks, at least four rigs broke down.
An 18-month Motor City Muckraker investigation has found that the Detroit Fire Department has placed firefighters and residents in serious jeopardy.
So many fires broke out that Detroit ran out of trucks to respond, leaving the city dangerously unprotected.
For four decades, Devils’ Night has been the most destructive period for fires in Detroit. Not anymore.
Detroit’s failing fleet of engines and trucks responded to more than 150 suspicious fires in houses, businesses, apartment buildings, schools and churches in the busiest month yet this year.
The administration taught a lesson to a fire sergeant for launching a complaint about long-neglected dangers at the city’s firehouses.