HAZEL PARK Police and firefighters face many perils, and there is no guarantee they will return home at the end of the shift. That’s why, amid the cold darkness of winter nights, residents are asked to place a blue or red light in their window as a show of support.
ARLINGTON, Va. — It sounded like popcorn warming in a microwave: sporadic bursts that quickened, gradually, to an arrhythmic clatter. “There it is,” Mary McKee said, staring out the front door of her home in Arlington, Virginia, on a recent afternoon. McKee, 43, a conference planner, moved to the neighborhood in 2005 and for the next decade and a half enjoyed a mostly tranquil existence. Then came the pickleball players. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times She gestured acr
HAZEL PARK As families gather to celebrate the holidays, first responders continue their important work. Each alarm could be their last, as they race through the dark and cold, uncertain if they will return home alive.