Detroit firefighters under fire for posing in photo in front of burning home

[Demovictory9]

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DETROIT – Detroit's fire commissioner says he will investigate the circumstances of a New Year's Eve photograph posted on social media showing 18 firefighters posing in front of roaring house fire, according to media reports.

The photo was posted on the "Detroit Fire Incidents Page" on Facebook along with the caption "crews take a moment to get a selfie on New Years!" In the background is a house engulfed in flames. The post has since been taken down.

Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones told WXYZ-TV in a statement that if the photo "is verified," then "discipline will be in order."

“There are a lot of ways to celebrate a retirement," Jones said in the statement. "Taking a photo in front of a building fire is not one of them."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/02/detroit-firefighters-photo-burning-home/2793802001/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

[mwooldri]

1. Is the house on fire part of a training exercise?

If so in my mind it would be forgivable and permissable. Various fire departments in NC (particularly rural volunteer departments) will burn down a dilapidated house as a training exercise.

[Iggo]

2. No.

[USALiberal]

3. How are people so stupid??? nt

[UniteFightBack]

4. How completely insensitive. nt

[They_Live]

5. Tonight I noticed

This same photo used in a cbs story about the Australian brush fires. I had a feeling that it did not belong where it was presented.

[MichMan]

6. It was an unoccupied vacant house with no other houses nearby

Posing like that was in poor taste and there will be discipline. If the fire was that far along, it probably made sense from a safety aspect to let it burn down.

Otherwise, it stands as a half burned structure potentially endangering scavengers and children while it gets scheduled for eventual demolition anyway.

[Iggo]

7. Not one of those fucking idiots stopped and thought...

"Now wait a minute. No two ways about it. This is going to look really, really bad."