Photo: Motor City Muckraker
Arsons continue to plague the city of Detroit.
Steve Neavling of the Motor City Muckraker, who has been examining the Detroit Fire Department and fires in the city, reports the number of suspicious fires in Detroit rose sharply in April, killing at least one person and damaging or destroying 142 houses, businesses, schools and apartments.
Neaving writes:
The fires spread and damaged more than two dozen neighboring houses, in no small part due to delays caused by broken hydrants and malfunctioning rigs.
In April, 14 engines and ladder trucks broke down at the scenes of emergencies or en route to them. About half of the city’s ladder trucks, which are used to rescue people and extinguish large fires, don’t have properly working aerials, and the city has no money to replace them.
