Angels Night Detroit Archives - Motor City 911 https://www.motorcity911.com/tag/angels-night-detroit/ Detroit Police, Fire & Severe Weather Incidents Sat, 05 Nov 2016 01:03:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 118838376 Detroit’s Devils Night 2016. 3 Nights of Gas Fumes https://www.motorcity911.com/detroits-devils-night-2016-3-nights-gas-fumes/ https://www.motorcity911.com/detroits-devils-night-2016-3-nights-gas-fumes/#respond Sun, 30 Oct 2016 04:08:49 +0000 http://www.motorcity911.com/?p=12062 DETROIT October 29 2016: Tonight is the start of the legendary Devil’s Night in Detroit. It’s had bad years and good years, relatively speaking of course. It’s started off slow tonight with only a couple of trash fires, a kitchen fire and a dead body in a basement. Not exactly what you’d expect from a […]

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]]> 4775-200DETROIT October 29 2016: Tonight is the start of the legendary Devil’s Night in Detroit. It’s had bad years and good years, relatively speaking of course. It’s started off slow tonight with only a couple of trash fires, a kitchen fire and a dead body in a basement. Not exactly what you’d expect from a legendary night. There’s a number of reasons why I’m guessing, citizens having had enough and forming groups of Angels Night volunteers, a neighborhood watch movement started a few years ago. In addition to the volunteers, the Detroit Police Department has a number of units out assigned to task forces created to stop arsons in the city. That’s all well and good, it’s better to have no fires that box alarms dropping every 2 minutes, which has happened.

Day 1 of the 2016 Devil’s Night ended kind of, what’s the word, flaccid? No, that’s probably wrong but it certainly wasn’t as bad as previous years. I was able to hold on until around 4:00am, then passed out. A couple of fires broke out but certainly nothing major. Alex over at @FireandWeather was able to post a couple of short Periscope videos while prowling Detroit streets. You can find his Periscope account here. A fire on Rochelle & Celestine and another on Maiden & Roseberry, both on Detroit’s NE side. You can hear firefighters sigh of relief all the way here. Previous Devil’s Nights saw many more fires so a breather; not unlike last years, is welcome in all the firehouses. Motor City Muckraker is reporting 11 dwellings and 2 building fires last night/this morning. On to Day/Night/Morning 2.

“The number of fires on Devils’ Night have been steadily declining since the 1990s. Last year, the city had fewer fires on Devils’ Night than any year since the 1970s.” – Motor City Muckraker

Graph via Motor City Muckraker

Graph via Motor City Muckraker

 

October 30 2016 – Day/Night 2 of Detroit’s Devil’s Night 2016

October 29 2016 – Day/Night 1 of Detroit’s Devil’s Night 2016

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