Detroit has been the wasteland of America for years. If you have never seen the hoods in Detroit and the abandoned neighborhoods then you wont understand the chaos going on in Detroit. You will never see Detroit’s neighborhoods on the news and you will never see President Obama in Detroit. Detroit was abandoned by the Government many years ago and it has become a third world country within America. I do not know if the Government is behind the Fires that are burning down all these abandoned houses in Detroit but I do know that nobody is any real hurry to put them out.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has defended the fire department for its response to what he described as “a natural disaster” after wind-whipped flames destroyed dozens of homes across the city.
Asked at a news conference Wednesday whether the department was adequately staffed, Bing said it was important to point out that nobody was killed.
Fire Commissioner James Mack says the department is budgeted for about 500 firefighters, about 20 fewer positions than last year. He says the 236 on duty Tuesday is typical.
Eight of the 85 fires Tuesday were related to downed power wires, two were arson. Mack says that on any given day, there are usually 35 fires in the city.
If he could do anything different, he says he might have called for help from the suburbs a little sooner.
