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Home»Posts tagged with»Eletricity

City failed miserably to protect residents from downed power lines during windy, icy night

By Steve Neavling on February 27, 2013   City Government, Government, Mayor's Office, posts  

City failed miserably to protect residents from downed power lines during windy, icy night

On one of the windiest, iciest nights in Detroit in over a year, the city had just one Public Lighting Department crew overnight to handle countless downed, sparking power lines and fallen street lights spread across 139 square miles.

Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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