Live Blog: A close-up look at all fires during Devil’s Night 2015
We’ll provide up-to-date details and a map of every fire through Halloween.
We’ll provide up-to-date details and a map of every fire through Halloween.
Although the number of fires have leveled off during Devil’s Night over the past five years, this year poses more significant challenges.
Fire hydrants malfunctioned as overstretched firefighters did all they could.
From Jan. 1 to July 31, fires damaged or destroyed more than 1,650 houses, apartments, commercial buildings, schools, hospitals and churches, according to Detroit-based Loveland Technologies.
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.
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.
Gas was doused on the roof of the cannabis store and set afire.