DETROIT FIRE

Teen electrocuted after coming in contact with live power line on Detroit’s west side

May 8, 2020 By Motor City 911

15 Year Old Electrocuted

Detroit’s West Side: Detroit Police, Detroit Fire and Detroit EMS were dispatched to 14333 Woodrow Wilson this afternoon at 6:12PM on reports of an electrocution.

Detroit Fire’s Engine 40 discovered the 15 year old, identified as Manuel Pelayo Jr, had come in contact with a live power line while on the roof of the building. Family members stated that he had been at the building helping a family friend secure the building against break-ins.

Detroit Fire’s Engine 40 notified Central Dispatch that DTE was needed on the scene ASAP to deal with the live wire. Detroit Fire’s Ladder Truck 17 was also dispatched to gain access to the roof.

DEMS Medic 1 had the run with DEMS Supervisor 1105. Detroit Fire’s Senior Chief 203, Deputy Chief 201 and Arson Car 811 also responded.

DEMS Medic 1 pronounced the young man deceased on the scene.

DEMS Supervisor 1105 terminated incident command @ 9:35PM.

Detroit Fire battles multiple alarm fire on Detroit’s east side.

May 7, 2020 By Motor City 911

Winds Spread Fire On East Side

Detroit’s East Side: At 11:28AM Thursday morning, Detroit Fire’s 1st & 6th Battalions responded to 3737 Beaufait on reports of a fire. The call was first dispatched as a ‘check for a fire’ but was immediately upgraded to a Commercial Box Alarm. Battalion Chief 1 arrived on scene and reported smoke showing.

The fire started in a pallet yard @ Beaufait & Pulford and winds, or an arsonist, spread the fire quickly through the east side neighborhood. Detroit Firefighters fought 6 fires, 3 commercial structures and 3 dwellings. One firefighter was injured at the Beaufait & Pulford fire scene and was conveyed by DEMS. Firefighters had to fight not only the fires in 6 separate locations but also citizens who harassed them, blocked traffic and basically made things more difficult for those fighting the fires.

The fire scene’s were in order of alarm:

3737 Beaufait, J&J Pallet & Trucking

3601 Bellevue, Total Bus Care

Sylvester & Bellevue– Commercial Building

3627 Helen– 1 vacant dwelling, 1 occupied exposure.

3654 Concord– Dwelling

Companies assigned to the Commercial Box Alarm:

Engines 1, 17, 41, 46. Ladder Trucks 27/6/7. Squads 2 & 3. Battalion Chiefs 1 & 6. DEMS Medic 8 & DEMS Supervisor 1104.

Dispatch Audio Initial Box

Initial Commercial Box Assignment – 1128AM 5/7/2020

Engines companies started to dump their monitors once positioned.

Engines Dumping Monitors –

Battalion Chief 6 warns companies on scene there are propane storage tanks on the fire scene, then they start exploding.

Propane Tanks Explode

Companies began to position themselves in the safest positions to fight the fire.

Companies Positioning

Battalion Chief 6 positioning Ladder Trucks.

Ladder Truck Positioning

Photo of Ladder Truck 7 Courtesy of SE MI Fire & Weather

Battalion Chief 6 notifies Central Dispatch more DPD units are needed due to citizens on fire scene.

Detroit Police Needed For Crowd Control

Battalion Chief 6 calls for another box for the fire @ 3601 Bellevue, just south of the current fire @ 3737 Beaufait.

Companies Assigned: Engines 52 39 32 Ladder 31 Squad 6 Chief 5

Box Alarm 3601 Bellevue

Senior Chief 203 assumes command on 3737 Beaufait fire scene, calls for a 2nd Alarm.

Companies assigned to 2nd Alarm on Beaufait: Hamtramck Engine 1, Hamtramck Ladder 1, DFD Engine 33, DFD Squad 4, Battalion Chief 9

Senior Chief 203 Takes Incident Command

Senior Chief 203 requests DPD to Sylvester & Beaufait due to citizens harassing firefighters on fire scene.

Senior Chief 203 Calls For DPD

Power was shut off in the area during the firefight by DTE.

The fight continues on both fire scenes. 2nd Alarm companies staging @ Mack & Beaufait. Deputy Chief 201 arrives on 3601 Bellevue, cancels box alarm, cites smoke from Beaufait fire scene, but Chief 5 is still stretched and continues box.

Deputy Chief 201 Arrives

Battalion Chief 6 notifies Central Dispatch, Senior Chief 203 that a cell tower at Sylvester & Beaufait has been compromised and may collapse, moves DTE crews from area. The tower is in the same block as J&J Pallets & Trucking where the pallet fire began.

Battalion Chief 6 Cell Tower Notification

Senior Chief 203 calls for a 4th Alarm for another commercial building sparking up @ Sylvester & Bellvue, apparently we skipped a third, maybe Mack & Bellevue counted as the 3rd, I dunno.

Companies Assigned to 4th Alarm: Engine 44, Hazmat 1, Hamtramck Ladder 1, Ladder 31, Squad 4 & Chief 9.

Senior Chief 203 Calls For 4th Alarm

The fight continues, companies are being transferred from current assignments to the 4th Alarm fire @ Sylvester & Bellevue. Then the winds start up, another fire has poked its ugly head up at 3627 Helen, Arson Car 809 reports a vacant dwelling on fire but with an occupied exposure next to it. Meanwhile, Battalion Chief 9 starts towers ops up @ Sylvester & Bellevue.

Companies Assigned to the Helen Fire Scene: Engines 44, 58, 50, 56 Ladder Truck 23, Deputy Chief 201, Battalion Chief 7

3627 Fire Scene

Companies respond to the Helen Fire Scene, companies continue to shift back and forth according to the winds and Ladder Truck 7 gets an attaboy. Meanwhile, another fire on Concord starts up in the rear of a dwelling at 3624 Concord. Deputy Chief 201 sends Engine 56 heads over to check things out from the Helen fire scene. Deputy Chief 201 requests the water board due to water pressure issues, all of the fire scenes are working off the same water main. Engine 56 reports they’re stretching on the rear of a dwelling on Concord, Arson Car 805 and Engine 58 are also on Concord fire scene. Chief of the Department 200 makes the scene of the multiple.

Operations on all fire scenes and Concord lights up.

More operations, Chief of the Department 200 assumes command at the Beaufait & Pulford fire scene. Fire on Helen is out, Chief 7 leaves the scene and responds to a possible jumper.

Detroit Fire’s Chief of the Department explaining the current situation on Detroit’s east side.

A firefighter is injured on the Beaufait & Pulford fire scene and conveyed to the hospital by DEMS. All fires scenes are either under control or will be shortly.

Firefighter Injured

Detroit Police Response

Detroit Police arrived on the scene tasked with traffic control, crowd control and went on a hunt for someone flying a drone in the area. Detroit Police Thunderbird Command received a call from tower ops @ Coleman Young stating that a person was flying a drone over the fire scene, was not in possession of an FAA permit and would need to be downed. The Drone Dude was located and detained. The DPD also dealt with bystanders who for some odd reason felt it their right to interfere with fire operations, they were quickly dealt with and herded out of the area.

Detroit’s 7 Precinct, 11th Precinct, 5th Precinct and other units are directed to the fire scene, skillfully, by Rock & Roll Joe, a well known DPD dispatcher.

Initial Detroit Police Response

Detroit Police’s 7th Precinct ++ Respond To Fire Scene

More units are directed toward the scene of the fires, a Motor Unit reports the dwelling fires on Helen.

The Helen Blaze Fires Up

A citizen runs back into a burning dwelling on Helen, Detroit Police discover another fire on the roof of the Sha-Sha’s Kiddy Korner Daycare on E Grand Blvd.

More DPD Dispatch Audio

Information comes into the DPD that an arsonist may be at work in the area. Units are looking for a Black male in a red hoodie, carrying a gas can. Area of Seminole & E Canfield.

Arsonist Sought

Detroit Police hunt down the Drone Dude, flying his drone over a fire scene without FAA clearance.

Dude with a drone…

Companies continued fighting the fires, power lines, citizens etc until around 7:00PM Thrusday evening. Except for some rekindles, the fires were extinguished.

Detroit EMS vs Everybody-Another DEMS Medic Assaulted On Accident Scene

May 5, 2020 By Motor City 911

Dispatch Audio-Suspect Arrested

Detroit’s West Side: A Detroit EMS Medic was assaulted on an accident scene early Tuesday morning. DEMS Medic 27 along with Detroit Fire’s Engine 55 were dispatched at 12:28AM to Joy Road at the Southfield freeway for a vehicle that tagged a wall on Joy Road. The victim was reportedly trapped inside the vehicle.

Upon arrival, DEMS Medic 27 attempted to render aid to the victim but was met with hostility by citizens on the scene. Once medics gained entry into the vehicle, a citizen struck the medic when his back was turned, striking him in the back of the head.

DEMS Supervisors 1105 & 1103 pressed to the scene and DPD’s 8th Precinct pulled a unit from a priority run to make the scene. DPD’s 8th Precinct’s 871 & 872 responded.

DEMS Medic 27 was able to render aid to the victim inside the vehicle despite having a lump on the back of the head, eventually conveying the critically injured victim to Sinai-Grace Hospital.

The DPD Scouts on the scene arrested the shitbag responsible for the attack, conveying him to the Detroit Detention Center (DDC).

Thankfully, the Medic attacked suffered only a headache and was back in Beast Mode a short time later.

Attacking Medics & Firefighters in Detroit has become a sport for some…Welcome to Detroit.

DEMS/DPD Dispatch Audio

15 Detroit Structure Fires In Less Than 24 Hours

May 2, 2020 By Motor City 911

11 Box Alarms, 15 Structures

Detroit: From 10:15AM May 1st to 10:42AM on May 2nd, Detroit Fire companies fought 11 different fires, 15 structures in total within the City of Detroit & Hamtramck.

Hoover & Sturgis – 10:42AM May 1

Structure Fire: Battalion Chief 9 reports a structure fire in the 19500 block of Hoover x Sturgis, requests the box alarm, Engine 60 is stretched on a burning dwelling.

Engine 60 46 50 Ladder 23 Squad 6 Chief 9 DEMS Medic 15

No injuries were reported.

Haverhill & E Warren 6:02PM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 9th Battalion responding to Haverhill & E Warren on reports of a structure fire. No address. Engine 52 reports smoke showing from their quarters.

Engines 32 52 58 Ladder 31 Squad 6 Battalion Chief 9 DEMS Medic 14

Garage Fire, held all companies on scene. No injuries reported.

Charest & Jerome 8:44PM

Commercial Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 8th Battalion @ Charest & Jerome with a commercial building fire, grease fire at Joe Ann’s BBQ. Downgrades commercial box to standard box alarm assignment. No injuries reported.

Dexter & Philadelphia 10:54PM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 5th Battalion @ Dexter & Philadelphia with a working dwelling fire. Engine 39 is stretched on a burning structure.

Engines 17 34 39 Ladder 7 Squad 4 Battalion Chief 5 DEMS Medic 8 Detroit Police Arson Car 805

No injuries reported.

Bewick & E Jefferson 11:56PM

2 Structure Fires: Detroit Fire’s 6th Battalion @ Bewick & E Jefferson with a working occupied dwelling fire (2 dwellings), 2nd floor, people are trapped according to Engine 41. DPD has also been requested by Battalion Chief 6.

Engines 9 41 32 46 52 Ladders 6/31 Squad 3 Battalion Chief 6 DEMS Medics 21/14 DPD

No injuries reported.

Plumer & McKinstry 12:06AM May 2

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 1st Battalion @ Plumer & McKinstry with a working occupied structure fire. DPD is also en route for an arson.

Engines 1 30 35 34 Ladder 8 Squad 2 Battalion Chief 1 DEMS Medic 9 DPD Arson Car 805

No injuries reported.

Maddeline & Queen 3:09AM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 9th Battalion at Maddeline & Queen for a vacant dwelling fire. Detroit Fire’s 9th Battalion on scene with a working structure fire. Engine 58 is stretched.

Engines 50 52 58 Ladder 23 Squad 6 Battalion Chief 9 DEMS

Defensive posture taken, structure collapsed. No injuries reported.

Sheridan & Sylvester 4:57AM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 1st Battalion @ Sheridan & Sylvester for a dwelling fire. Detroit Fire’s 1st Battalion is on scene with a working structure fire in a 1.5 story occupied dwelling going throughout.

Engines 9 41 46 Ladder Truck 6 Squad 3 Battalion Chief 1 DEMS

Defensive posture taken and the dwelling collapsed. No injuries reported.

E McNichols & Moenart 5:14AM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 8th & 9th Battalions @ E McNichols & Moenart for a commercial structure fire. Battalion Chief 8 downgrades to standard box assignment.

Engines 35 44 56 Hamtramck Engine 1 Ladders 18/Hamtramck Ladder 1 Squad 4 Battalion Chiefs 8 & 9 DEMS

No injuries reported.

Belmont & Chrysler Dr 8:30AM

Structure Fire: Fire reported in an occupied dwelling @ Belmont & Chrysler in Hamtramck. Detroit Fire/Hamtramck Fire on scene with a working structure fire.

Detroit Fire’s Engine 35 Hamtramck Engine 1 Highland Park Engine 1 Hamtramck Ladder Truck 1 DFD’s Squad 3 Battalion Chief 5 DEMS

No injuries reported.

W Grand & Poe 10:15AM

Structure Fire: Detroit Fire’s 1st & 5th Battalions for multiple structures on fire @ W Grand & Poe. Detroit Fire’s 1st & 5th Battalion on scene with a working fire, 4 structures in total. 2 dwellings, 1 commercial doctors office and 1 garage. Crews were relived due to the extent of the fire. Fire was extinguised at around 2:30PM.

Engines 40 17 34 39 Ladder Trucks 17/7 Squads 4/2 Battalion Chiefs 5/1 DEMS

Defensive posture was taken and the structures collapsed. No injuries reported. 36 firefighters fought this blaze. No injuries reported.

Early Morning Fatal Traffic Accident W 7 Mile & Gilchrist

May 2, 2020 By Motor City 911 Leave a Comment

1 Killed, 1 Critical In West Side Crash

Detroit’s West Side (4:15AM): Scouts from the DPD’s 8th Precinct responded to reports of a 2002 Dodge Caravan striking the rear of a semi-trailer early Saturday morning at W 7 Mile & Gilchrist. The Detroit Fire Department dispatched Engine 59 & Squad 1 to the scene. Upon arrival, DFD’s Squad 1 began extrication assisted by Squad 5.

Detroit EMS dispatched Medic’s 3 and 22 along with DEMS Supervisor 1105.

Following a lengthy extrication, DEMS Medic 3 conveyed 1 critical patient to Sinai-Grace Hospital. The second victim, a 24 year old male and the passenger in the vehicle, was pronounced deceased at the scene and was conveyed to Sinai-Grace Hospital by DEMS Medic 22.

The Detroit Police Fatal Squad is investigating.