Swbaby12345 Member Username: Swbaby12345
Post Number: 10 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 11:10 pm: | |
Anyone have pics of areal views from back in the day when there was a bunch of fires set on devil's night? |
Southen Member Username: Southen
Post Number: 132 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 11:11 pm: | |
You sure you dont mean Angel's night? |
Swbaby12345 Member Username: Swbaby12345
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, April 09, 2007 - 11:25 pm: | |
LOL |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 235 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 8:33 am: | |
Here is a start: http://cms.firehouse.com/conte nt/article/article.jsp?section Id=45&id=45445 Sounds like the 80s were the worst. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1216 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 8:40 am: | |
It was Mardi Gras for pyromaniacs and fire fighting enthusiasts, who used to come to Detroit for the event. It was one of the few sources of Detroit tourism going on in the 80's |
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100
Post Number: 758 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 8:43 am: | |
Take this, face aerial view, and multiply by a lot. Sorry, this is the best I could find. |
Swbaby12345 Member Username: Swbaby12345
Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 2:57 am: | |
great pics! Do you know what areas of detroit were hit the hardest? |
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100
Post Number: 783 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 8:13 am: | |
No, sorry. I wasn't alive during the 80s. I just googled Devils Night. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1221 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 8:27 am: | |
"Do you know what areas of Detroit were hit the hardest?" the areas with abandoned houses |
El_jimbo Member Username: El_jimbo
Post Number: 80 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 3:03 pm: | |
"Wasn't alive during the 80s"?! Is 26 too early to start feeling old? |
Exmotowner Member Username: Exmotowner
Post Number: 187 Registered: 06-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 3:16 pm: | |
Fires were everywhere in the city! I worked at 8 and a half and Hoover and we used to go up on the top of the building to watch the fires. There was no one place. All the city had fires. and Yes 26 is too young to start feeling old so...STOP IT! LOL |
Dfd Member Username: Dfd
Post Number: 237 Registered: 09-2004
| Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 11:30 am: | |
The way I understand it, the citizen volunteers and police helicopters have cut the numbers of fires a lot on halloween night. So now the fires are being set a week or two before and after halloween. DFD is still getting beat half to death during the halloween season. don't know how they do it! |