Jan. 25, 2023 Unlike the other three, the most recent building was occupied, and the man narrowly escaped.
Source Firehouse.com News
A string of fires in Detroit has residents on edge.
A funeral home was the latest target last Friday, WDIV reported.
There have been three other fires or fire-bombings along Chalmers Street. The main difference this time, it was occupied.
Detroit firefighters used a ladder to rescue the resident, just in the nick of time.
“I was asleep, and the next thing I know, I hear a loud bang and then boom,” Lawrence Pillow said, adding that something came crashing through the window of the apartment he keeps on the top floor of the building.
He was trapped as the flames crew.
“I went back to the bedroom and knocked the windows out and stuck my head out of the windows because the flames was coming towards me.”
Pillow had been renovating the funeral home on Chalmers Street in hopes of opening it back up.