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Checker Bar holds fundraiser for employees after ‘devastating’ fire

Ownership of the downtown Detroit bar blames the fire on a utility’s explosion

By Steve Neavling
Jan 15, 2025

Tags: Metro Detroit, Local Businesses, Bars, Fire, downtown, Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, Checker Bar, Checker Bar & Grill, fundraiser, GoFundMe
Investigations

Could a new analysis finally prove Mario Willis’s innocence in Detroit firefighter’s death?

Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part IV)

By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Jan 15, 2025

Tags: Investigations, Crime, Government, Detroit Fire Department, Mario Willis, Walter Harris, Maxine Willis, Darian Dove, Michigan wrongful conviction cases, Detroit crime, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Downtown Detroit’s Checker Bar damaged in fire, explosion reported

The damage was “fairly significant,” a fire department spokesperson says

By Steve Neavling
Jan 14, 2025

Tags: Metro Detroit, Bars, News, Fire, downtown, Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, Checker Bar, Checker Bar & Grill, Slideshow
Metro Detroit

Lapointe: Setting the night on fire in Jefferson-Chalmers

With flaming Christmas trees, a neighborhood tradition in Detroit burns on

By Joe Lapointe
Jan 8, 2024

Tags: Metro Detroit, Lapointe, Views & Opinions, Jefferson-Chalmers, Detroit, Detroit traditions, Detroit Fire Department
Investigations

Dove tales: CIU interview casts doubt on Detroit firefighter death conviction

Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part III)

By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Dec 20, 2023

Tags: Investigations, Crime, Government, Mario Willis, Detroit Fire Department, Walter Harris, Maxine Willis, Darian Dove, Michigan wrongful conviction cases, Detroit crime, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Star Wars-themed party shut down in Detroit over alleged fire hazards

‘It was a nightmare in progress,’ fire spokesman says

By Steve Neavling
May 8, 2023

Tags: Metro Detroit News, News, Star Wars, Tangent Gallery, Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, fire Marshall, Space Dive, Slideshow
Investigations

After a Detroit firefighter died on duty, prosecutors looked for someone to blame. Did they get it all wrong?

Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part II)

By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Nov 16, 2022

Tags: Investigations, Longform, Crime, Mario Willis, Walter Harris, Detroit Fire Department, Maxine Willis
Investigations

How a Detroit firefighter’s death might have sent an innocent man to prison

Fire wall: The case of Mario Willis (part I)

By Eddie B. Allen Jr.
Nov 9, 2022

Tags: Investigations, Longform, Crime, Mario Willis, Maxine Willis, Walter Harris, Detroit Fire Department, Cover Story
Metro Detroit

Fires vanish from Detroit’s notorious Devil’s Night

By Steve Neavling
Nov 1, 2021

Tags: Fires, Detroit, Devil's Night, arson, Dave Fornell, Detroit Fire Department, Mayor Duggan, Halloween
Metro Detroit

Detroit Fire Department captain dies from coronavirus as city's death toll surpasses 250

By Steve Neavling
Apr 9, 2020

Tags: News Hits, Detroit Fire Department, firefighters, captain, Capt. Franklin D. Williams Jr., coronavirus, deaths, infections, positive cases, Detroit Police Department, race
Metro Detroit

Detroit firefighters disciplined for posing in front of burning house

By Steve Neavling
Jan 24, 2020

Tags: Local News, News Hits, Detroit, firefighters, fire, discipline, Commissioner Eric Jones, Detroit Fire Department, social media, Facebook
Metro Detroit

Detroit firefighters may face discipline after posing in front of burning house

By Steve Neavling
Jan 2, 2020

Tags: News Hits, Firefighters, Detroit, Detroit Fire Department, Facebook, social media, Fire Commissioner Eric Jones
Metro Detroit

Decades-long Devil's Night is dead in Detroit, with fires disappearing on Halloween Eve

By Steve Neavling
Oct 31, 2019

Tags: Local News, News Hits, Detroit, firefighters, Detroit Fire Department, Halloween, Arsons, Fires
Metro Detroit

City of Detroit employees injured after toilet seat 'prank gone bad'

By Steve Neavling
Jul 10, 2019

Tags: News Hits, Detroit Fire Department, General Services Department, firecrackers, prank, toilet, Dave Fornell, Brad Dick
Arts

Detroit Artists' Test Lab revisits 2012 documentary 'Burn' with free screening

Staff Pick

By Jerilyn Jordan
Mar 29, 2019

Tags: The Scene, Burn, Detroit Fire Department, DFD, arson city, Detroit Artists' Test Lab, Video
Metro Detroit

Detroit Fire Department receives 800 pet oxygen masks

By Jerilyn Jordan
Mar 9, 2018

Tags: News Hits, Detroit, Fire, Dog, dog rescue, cat, cat rescue, Detroit Fire Department
Metro Detroit

The annual Detroit Christmas Tree Burn takes place next week

By Alaina Nutile
Jan 2, 2015

Tags: News Hits, Detroit Christmas Tree Burn, Detroit Fire Department, Holidays, Fire, Video
Metro Detroit

How Detroit’s arson investigators and a local prosecutor are extinguishing the flames

The Fire Next Time

By Valerie Vande Panne
Oct 29, 2014

Tags: Local News, Detroit Arson, Chief Charles Simms, Detroit Fire Department, Cover Story

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