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Because of broken pipes. plumbers are doing double duty. a lot of people like the plumbers and electric crews were working in the cold. ups crews were working in the cold. also doing double duty are firefighters. when you get weather like this there are a lot of fire calls between space heaters, overtaxed systems and people with bad ideas to heat their homes. it makes things difficult for the firefighters. one fire on the south side that brought out warming trucks and rotated crews through so they could get their hands functioning in the brutal cold. you get the dramatic images of the firefigh...

The big reason why is because detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary, "burn" detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster. the city has a $200 millio...

Detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary "burn," detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster. the city has a $200 million budget shortfall and $13 bil...

Prices actually fell 3.6%. the big reason why is because detroit keeps sliding backwards is because, hell, it's on fire most of the time. no kidding. as msnbc.com reports, last year alone, the detroit fire department fielded 30,000 fire calls. the city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. in contrast, los angeles, a city of nearly 4 million faces just 11 structure fires a day. now, detroit is always -- almost always burning at least somewhere. as one firefighter put it in a recent documentary, "burn" detroit is like katrina without the hurricane. detroit's finances are also in a disaster....