Paramedics frantically try to rescue a man from his burning car in Detroit
The car erupted in flames just before paramedics arrived.
The car erupted in flames just before paramedics arrived.
The pit bulls were confined to a burning basement.
The children – ages 4, 6, 8 and 11 – were home alone when the fire broke out at 5236 Cecil.
The first ambulance took at least 12 minutes to arrive.
We reviewed dispatch calls and 911 records to get a clearer picture of the floods and their impact on metro Detroit.
The west-side building is owned by the city, which isn’t as quick to take action in some neighborhoods.
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.
The flooding was so rampant that Detroit firefighters and police were sometimes unable to reach emergencies.
The victim was lifeless when firefighters removed him from a collapsed garage.
Firefighters spotted the man “waving frantically” as smoke billowed from the house on the city’s west side.