Less than two days after firefighters reported an underground fire in downtown Detroit, they spotted smoke coming from another “blown” manhole Monday morning, just a block from Cobo Center.
“It’s starting to go from manhole to manhole,” a firefighter told dispatchers.
This is a very serious situation because the Fire Department fights more than a dozen house and building fires a day.
It was a frigid, frustrating and overwhelming 14 hours for Detroit’s exhausted firefighters.
Detroit Public Schools has an ugly history of failing to safeguard its abandoned properties, but the problem is worsening at an alarming rate.
The repairs took nearly six hours and all of my savings. And that was just the beginning.
We monitored all 116 fire calls from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., finding lagging response times and overwhelmed fire crews.
Conspiracy theories about Detroit’s emergency manager continue to circulate, but they’re rarely true.