A CITY IN FLAMES: INSIDE DETROIT’S WAR ON ARSON
As reported on The Verge. By Jesse Hicks Understaffed and with few resources, Detroit-area firefighters battle a plague of abandoned, burning buildings For eight long years, the firefighters of Highland Park, Michigan, worked out of a warehouse. There was no red-bricked facade, no lanky Dalmatian. No freshly washed engines gleaming in the sun. No second-floor fire pole to descend in the dead of night to wailing sirens. Whatever idealized vision you have of firefighting, Highland Park…