Firefighters battle a fire inside vacant three storefronts on Michigan Ave. in Southwest Detroit. Snowflakes and ash floated from the sky outside a home on Caniff in Detroit about 11:45 p.m. Monday.

In a surfaced video interview Detroit Fire Dept. commissioner Charles Simms (offscreen) acknowledges an alibi for Mario Willis (pictured), convicted for the 2008 death of firefighter Walter Harris.

DETROIT -- A man and a dog were killed Tuesday morning in a house fire on Detroit’s west side. According to WDIV-Detroit, firefighters were dispatched to a home in the 4000 block of Clippert Street ...