Funkycarrie Member Username: Funkycarrie
Post Number: 196 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.249.244.223
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 6:59 pm: | |
I see grey-black smoke over by Ford Field...anyone know whats up? |
Haydenth Member Username: Haydenth
Post Number: 27 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 68.249.239.191
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:03 pm: | |
Looking out my window towards downtown now (from Midtown). I see no smoke. Better question: what was on fire last night at about 3:30Am? I was awoken in my apt (on Cass & Kirby) by about 15-20 minutes worth of fire engines, ambulances, and cops going down Cass and Woodward. |
Funkycarrie Member Username: Funkycarrie
Post Number: 197 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 68.249.244.223
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:15 pm: | |
I'm over in Lafayette Park...about 5 minutes ago there was a ton of smoke, but its dwindling. |
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22
Post Number: 75 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 69.14.101.116
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:37 pm: | |
It's 4/20, come on now! Bagman's burning one. |
Goat Member Username: Goat
Post Number: 8343 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 67.71.59.252
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:41 pm: | |
Actually the smoke is coming from the Mexicantown area (or a bit north of there). |
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 746 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.123.232
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:42 pm: | |
Huge rowhouse fire in SW Detroit - I can see the smoke from Harper Woods at Eastland. |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 444 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 7:48 pm: | |
It seems to be around Michigan Avenue or so. Quite a distance east, though, from Patton Park. |
Drdetroit Member Username: Drdetroit
Post Number: 44 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 69.219.20.60
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 8:01 pm: | |
Talk about real time this is great! |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 446 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:11 pm: | |
A garage fire led to a house fire and then four commercial establishments at Junction & Otis--about where I thought it would be. Insufficient water pressure from the hydrants didn't help. Another plus for the Detroit Water Commission! |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 946 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:18 pm: | |
It had a good start before the fire dept even got there - the wooden parts of the structures looked tinder dry. When I passed by the entire garage was engulfed and no trucks were on scene yet. Could tell right away that the whole little cluster was probably a goner. ps I think most or all of the involved storefronts on Junction were empty (Message edited by lilpup on April 20, 2006) |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 447 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:27 pm: | |
When Cadillac left, others followed. Especially taverns... |
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 10 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 141.217.173.148
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 10:48 pm: | |
Haydenth, I woke up to those 3:30 sirens last night too...I'm at Woodward and E. Hancock. |
Thecarl
Member Username: Thecarl
Post Number: 716 Registered: 04-2005 Posted From: 69.14.30.175
| Posted on Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 11:46 pm: | |
to see what's currently burning, go to http://www.whatsonfirenow.com no, but really... why is detroit so...combustible??? negligence, destructiveness, and profiteers. i remember a lot of flint being burned down in the 80's. at least once a month, in my neighborhood, there was a really good fire. i lived near the riverfront, and some conflagrations featured the demise of beautiful classic buildings integral to the boom of michigan's industrial might. it was widely rumored that the fires had much to do with the desire to redevelop the riverfront, and the city's collection on insurance. other things burned because of people hating what they were seeing, like the house of prostitution near second and grand traverse. it was right behind where i lived, and i still remember the dude at night giving instructions to the girls regarding what street corners they would work. it's no surprise that thing got torched. abandoned buildings too...for some people who lived in them, it was a way of eradicating a bitter past. they'd burn the thing and move on. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 2508 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.167.210.27
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 12:14 am: | |
Just saw the TV pictures. It was near the venerable St. Hedwig's cathedral whose twin spires could be seen in the background. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&q=detroit,+mi&ll=42.32 818,-83.109319&spn=0.003704,0. 009989&t=h&om=1 |
Chow Member Username: Chow
Post Number: 284 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.148.83
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 12:21 am: | |
There was a lot of black smoke coming from just beyond the incinerator. I caught it driving home from work at about 9. |
Pffft Member Username: Pffft
Post Number: 904 Registered: 12-2003 Posted From: 70.233.2.149
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 12:36 am: | |
Apparently people lived in those buildings, upstairs, but fortunately the building owner was in the hospital, and the other tenant wasn't home. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 947 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 64.12.116.204
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 2:19 am: | |
It was just kitty corner from Hedwig's - across the street and about a half block north. |
Bagman Member Username: Bagman
Post Number: 64 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.220.68.161
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 5:38 am: | |
Tayshaun22: Thanks for the shout out...That smoke could not have been mine. We didn't get going at The Buzz Bar on Larned untill about 9pm. It was the 2nd Annual 420 Festival.......We were puff'n right there on Larned....Detroit Style....Matter a fact, I saw Saul Green (former US Attorney) going into OPUS ONE as I was standing across the street puffing on a Super Silver Haze joint celebrating 4/20....John Sinclair would have been proud! |
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine
Post Number: 1019 Registered: 05-2005 Posted From: 198.208.159.20
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 9:45 am: | |
quote:There was a lot of black smoke coming from just beyond the incinerator. I caught it driving home from work at about 9.
that was a house fire on the 94 service drive just east of the incinerator, I just happend to drive past..thought that was monday I believe |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 4001 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.174.235
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 9:56 am: | |
Yes folks it was a apt. fire at SW Detroit. It was deliberately set for a act of personal vendetta. One of my street prophets saw 2 men running away from the scene. |
Drm Member Username: Drm
Post Number: 940 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.73.205.109
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 10:59 am: | |
quote:One of my street prophets saw 2 men running away from the scene.
I'm confused. I thought you said that you weren't The Ghettoman? |
Pamequus Member Username: Pamequus
Post Number: 21 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 158.229.218.204
| Posted on Friday, April 21, 2006 - 11:31 am: | |
duh....what is a street prophet?? |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 4016 Registered: 02-2004 Posted From: 141.217.173.154
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 1:39 pm: | |
Drm, I'm NOT THE GHETTOMAN. I'm a one of the representive Street Prophets #174 Danny. The Ghettoman, like I told some of you in the forum picnic that he's a Clay Aiken look-a-like young man who founded and The Street Prophets, super organiztion that designed to overthrow all world Republican, monarchs and other authoritarian governments and replace society with the libertarian ethics of a democratic/socialist regime based upon the deontological and teological morals. His political views are democratic socialist and bureaucratic along with ethics. During the weekends, he's out in the ghettos of Detroit talking with other local black church leaders about reaching out the Detroit ghettohood communities about inceasing spiritual outreach, restoring black Detroit businesses and homes for the low-income families and fighting against the veil of ignorance that surrounds every people in the community. You can find him, if you can. |
Drm Member Username: Drm
Post Number: 943 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.74.28.242
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 4:20 pm: | |
Now I'm even more confused. I thought Clay Aiken was white? |
Aiw
Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 5484 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.156.93.207
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 4:22 pm: | |
Danny, can you post a picture of the Ghettoman? (Message edited by aiw on April 22, 2006) |
The_aram Member Username: The_aram
Post Number: 4813 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 141.213.175.233
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 4:39 pm: | |
What's even more entertaining about this is that Danny is now claiming he was at the picnic when at the actual event he was insisting he -wasn't- Danny, but rather another representative of the Ghettoman. |
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1070 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.222.11.226
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 5:01 pm: | |
quote:A garage fire led to a house fire and then four commercial establishments at Junction & Otis--about where I thought it would be. Insufficient water pressure from the hydrants didn't help. Another plus for the Detroit Water Commission!
Just to let you all know. The water pressure was there. As a matter of fact there was enough pressure to put a fire out and hose down folks who just have to knock the "water commission" If these ghetto ass people would just leave the freakin hydrants alone in the summer, then we might just have enough workable hydrants to use to put their house out when some idiot decides it is time to blaze it up!!! (Message edited by broken_main on April 22, 2006) |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 492 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 5:50 pm: | |
I know the fire department regularly opens the hydrants. If a hydrant is defective from a previous year, for example, why wasn't it taken care of? Is this the fire department's lapse, miscommunication problem, or what? |
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis
Post Number: 45 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.227.102.82
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:21 pm: | |
Somebody hit a fire hydrant on Moross near St Johns Hospital last weekend. I'm waiting to see how long it takes before it is fixed. |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 495 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 6:43 pm: | |
There's another ruins of Detroit--a busted hydrant--on Central that seems to be another Lee Plaza. Some scrapper also must have literally lifted a sewer grate a few blocks away from the hydrant. A nice hole for a car to drop into. |
Broken_main Member Username: Broken_main
Post Number: 1071 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.222.11.226
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 9:30 pm: | |
That's another problem. Scrappers walking around here with all of these manhole covers fire hydrant plugs, just about anything metal thats not held down. And, we, the public just let them walk around here with shopping carts filled with our shit. I call the 911 and the 311 and this just isn't a concern?? I see the req's come in on those hydrants and street signs , traffic barricades etc. IT COSTS MONEY....beter yet...IT COSTS US MONEY. Not that any of you care, but i work in a department that generates revenue and just yesterday I saw 100 people get laid off and many more forced to take a demotion. It's these little things(open hydrants, scrappers stealing everything) that take away from the residents. If you see a guy with a sewer cover in a basket....GUESS WHAT, that cover just wasn't found in any ole city owned garbage can. |
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard
Post Number: 498 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42
| Posted on Saturday, April 22, 2006 - 9:39 pm: | |
Ask that reporter for The Onion in Madison, WI. Make him disclose his sources! |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 1908 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.2.148.59
| Posted on Monday, April 24, 2006 - 1:28 am: | |
Sad...That whole block has burned one building after another. Last I knew, they were the all owned by the same individual too...I'm sure it's just a coincidence. |