See Loveland's brand-new 'Detroit: After the Fire'

By Michael Jackman

Sep 2, 2015 at 4:22 pm

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The data-crunchers at Loveland have long created online resources helping map properties in Detroit and who owns them. Now it shows you what's been burning lately.

Loveland's Jerry Paffendorf tells us that the project, which went online about 30 minutes ago, "represents more than six months of listening to the fire scanner, writing down events, visiting and revisiting properties, and working through the data."

The project provides a report on the data, a gallery of photos, and a remarkable map that shows what has burned, and how severe the fires were. See it by clicking here, here for the map.

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Michael Jackman

Born in 1969 at Mount Carmel hospital in Detroit, Jackman grew up just 100 yards from the Detroit city line in east Dearborn. Jackman has attended New York University, the School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University and Wayne State University, though he never got a degree. He has worked as a bar back, busboy,...