Arsonist strikes another Heidelberg Project house as fundraising continues
Investigators believe someone fire-bombed the Birthday Cake House on Heidelberg Street.
Email: Heidelberg Project director suspects arsonists want land, turns over surveillance
The ATF and Detroit’s arson squad are investigating the fires after the sixth house was destroyed by an intentionally set blaze.
Detroit Firehose Challenge: Charlie LeDuff gets soaked for a new local cause
“I pledge $1,000 to my brothers and sisters who look out for my brothers and sisters,” LeDuff said before being soaked with a firehose.
City of Detroit demands up to $42,000 to produce public EMS records
Our request for three months of records, the city maintained, would disable emergency communications and take more than a year to fulfill.
Car accident, collapsed building left untouched by city of Detroit for days
On Detroit’s west side, just six blocks from where the 1967 riot broke out, a battered car is wedged into the corner of a partially collapsed two-story commercial building on Linwood, buried by piles of bricks and concrete.
Flooding submerges dozens of cars, closes highways, impedes firefighters in Detroit
The flooding was so rampant that Detroit firefighters and police were sometimes unable to reach emergencies.
Audio: Detroit firefighters, medics save man during remarkable rescue
The victim was lifeless when firefighters removed him from a collapsed garage.
Detroit firefighters rescue older man from second-story window
Firefighters spotted the man “waving frantically” as smoke billowed from the house on the city’s west side.
Detroit fire stations flooded with raw sewage, could affect elections
Raw sewage flooded two Detroit fire stations on Sunday, prompting health concerns and fears that the backup could interfere with one of the polling locations during Tuesday’s primary election.
Explosion suspected after Detroit house flattened
A two-story house in Detroit was flattened Monday morning by what firefighters believe was an explosion.