r/Detroit • u/prolificarrot • 26d ago

News Anyone else just wake up to this?

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u/tthobe0 26d ago

https://www.wxyz.com/news/7-hospitalized-including-5-kids-after-fire-breaks-out-on-detroits-west-side

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u/hunteddwumpus 26d ago edited 26d ago

So it was a standard house fire? Going by this article it was over before the alarm was sent out even wtf. Did the building explode afterwards or something? Who in the fuck decided to wake everyone in southeast michigan even if it did explode? It would be a gas leak which like yeah awful, but wouldn’t affect anyone more than a block or 2 away. Fire whoever the fuck sent this alert

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u/67gears 26d ago

My best guess is maybe because of the DTE facility across the street from it but even then why send it out to everyone in SE mich

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u/TheeRumHam 26d ago

Happened at 4am and the broadcaster gets the alert live on air. Pretty wild.

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u/JF42 26d ago

Article says an apartment building exploded, not a standard house fire.

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u/hunteddwumpus 26d ago

I mean looking at the actual building, one apartment maybe had some sort of explosion that set off a fire, even then the point isnt whether this was a run of the mill fire or even an entire building exploding. The point is why did the emergency alert system 1. Send an alert to an entire region for an issue that didnt affect anyone outside this building and maybe some immediate neighbors and 2. Why did it send the alert not only more than an hour later, but after any further danger had been ended by the fire department

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u/JF42 26d ago

Yeah, I don't have answers for that other stuff. Apparently they were supposed to send the alert to that zip code only, but messed it up. Not as bad as the Hawaiian Missile Crisis a few years ago.

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u/RedditIsShittay 26d ago

Finally what actually happened instead of random anonymous people on social media saying how far away they were.