
Detroit
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
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Detroit Fire Department
There are approximately 80 thousand abandoned buildings within detroits a hundred forty square mile city limits. With an ever lower valued housing market where you can buy a home for as little as 500 dollars, many houses are burned down for the insurance. Many because angry neighbors desperate to hang on, see abandoned structures taken over by crack heads or drug gangs. Given the ever shrinking resources available to the department, most fires can't even be investigated. This fire is out within an hour. And after the fire dinner.
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