DETROIT — A thick odor of smoke filled Detroit's air Wednesday morning after roaring fires, fanned by winds of up to 50 mph, swept through at least three Detroit neighborhoods Tuesday night, destroying dozens of homes.
No injuries have been reported.
"Between roughly 4 o'clock and about 8:30 we responded to about 85 fires," and about 140 downed power lines, fire commissioner James Mack told WXYZ-TV Tuesday night.
Detroit fire Capt. Steve Varnas told the Free Press that some fires may have been caused by dead tree limbs being blown onto power lines.
At least one electric company launched an investigation into possible ties between the blazes and its lines.
Arson also was being looked at as a cause for some of the fires, according to the Detroit News.
"It was like blankets of smoke everywhere and the next thing I know everybody's house was in fire," Louvenia Wallace, 31, a hair stylist and mother of three, told the Detroit Free Press Wednesday outside the duplex she rents.
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