Yep, just watched a bunch of them, unbelievable that is an American city.
Volunteers fan out across Detroit to prevent fires
October 30, 2009 10:44 PM ET
http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=11418406
The city plans to release final fire numbers Monday.
WJBK-TV reported a suspicious fire on Friday night that was quickly extinguished.
Volunteer patrols have decreased the number of fires, which topped 800 in 1984.
<Yep, just watched a bunch of them, unbelievable that is an American city.
Same here. It’s amazing, and terribly sad. I went to UM in Ann Arbor in the 70’s and frequently went into Detroit for rock concerts. You couldn’t pay me to go there now.
What I don’t understand it, where did the people go? Did they just abandon their homes? I know that many cities such as Philly have lost population, but it looks like Detroit has lost almost everyone. When I went to UM, many of my classmates from Detroit had recently moved out of town to the suburbs after the riots. OK, that happened a lot of places, but I can’t think of anywhere that looks as bad as Detroit. And did all the abandoned places belong to whites and middle class blacks? Are the only ones left now the poor blacks? Often, when one group leaves, another takes it place. How come no group - Hispanics, Vietnamese, etc have moved into these areas? Even the riot-torn areas of DC eventually were re-habbed and people and businesses moved back in. What happened, or didn’t happen, here?
I’m not from Michigan, but I married a Michigander and my heart is there. I just don’t get what happened to Detroit.