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http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/10/detroit_experiences_fiery_ange.html
In neighborhoods across Detroit, the intense orange glow of burning houses pierced the black sky Thursday night and Friday morning. A blaze at 3140 E. Kirby erupted just before 11:30 p.m. engulfing three homes and sending huge plumes of gray and black smoke twisting into the night. Ash and embers fell from above. Minutes later, less than five blocks away, another large fire enveloped two apparently vacant houses at Mount Elliot and East Warren.
Over 3,000 people were still logged into the Detroit Fire Department online dispatch feed at 2 a.m. Friday listening to fire activity across the city. Dispatch and firefighters receiving the runs remained busy well into the morning.
"McDougall and East Ferry, request for box alarm," the dispatcher said as a new fire erupted at 2:36 a.m.
Photographers from well beyond Detroit descend on the city each Oct. 30 hoping to capture dramatic fire images on what is known as Devils' Night -- Angels' Night to those trying to change its malicious reputation. Although there hasn't been an official count, Motor City Muckraker, a Detroit news website operated by reporter Steve Neavling, recorded at least 36 fires between midnight Wednesday and Friday morning, fewer than in previous years, according to Neavling. Motor City Muckraker is mapping all fires and offering live updates.
Mayor Mike Duggan's office said there were 28 fires, seven suspicious, Wednesday.
Twenty-six is the average number of fires per night in the city Fire Commissioner Edsel Jenkins estimated when speaking to MLive Detroit last week. At the peak of Devils' Night activity in the 1980s, the number of reported arson fires were in the hundreds through the three-day period, from Oct. 29 through the morning of Nov. 1. City officials reported 95 fires at the end of the three-day period in 2013, compared to 93 in 2012 and 94 in 2011. There were 169 in 2010 and 119 in 2009.
GIVEN THE PLANS TO STEAL THE HOUSING OUT FROM UNDER THE PEOPLE....WELL, IT'S ONE WAY TO DEPRIVE THE PROFITEERS...
In neighborhoods across Detroit, the intense orange glow of burning houses pierced the black sky Thursday night and Friday morning. A blaze at 3140 E. Kirby erupted just before 11:30 p.m. engulfing three homes and sending huge plumes of gray and black smoke twisting into the night. Ash and embers fell from above. Minutes later, less than five blocks away, another large fire enveloped two apparently vacant houses at Mount Elliot and East Warren.
Over 3,000 people were still logged into the Detroit Fire Department online dispatch feed at 2 a.m. Friday listening to fire activity across the city. Dispatch and firefighters receiving the runs remained busy well into the morning.
"McDougall and East Ferry, request for box alarm," the dispatcher said as a new fire erupted at 2:36 a.m.
Photographers from well beyond Detroit descend on the city each Oct. 30 hoping to capture dramatic fire images on what is known as Devils' Night -- Angels' Night to those trying to change its malicious reputation. Although there hasn't been an official count, Motor City Muckraker, a Detroit news website operated by reporter Steve Neavling, recorded at least 36 fires between midnight Wednesday and Friday morning, fewer than in previous years, according to Neavling. Motor City Muckraker is mapping all fires and offering live updates.
Mayor Mike Duggan's office said there were 28 fires, seven suspicious, Wednesday.
Twenty-six is the average number of fires per night in the city Fire Commissioner Edsel Jenkins estimated when speaking to MLive Detroit last week. At the peak of Devils' Night activity in the 1980s, the number of reported arson fires were in the hundreds through the three-day period, from Oct. 29 through the morning of Nov. 1. City officials reported 95 fires at the end of the three-day period in 2013, compared to 93 in 2012 and 94 in 2011. There were 169 in 2010 and 119 in 2009.
GIVEN THE PLANS TO STEAL THE HOUSING OUT FROM UNDER THE PEOPLE....WELL, IT'S ONE WAY TO DEPRIVE THE PROFITEERS...
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