Detroit Free Press
DETROIT — A Detroit firefighter injured early today at a home investigators suspect was firebombed said he’s not angry at the person who set the blaze.
Charles Rice, 44, and a 21-year veteran, was treated at DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital for a neck injury and released.
“It’s just what some people do,” said Rice said this morning just after 7 a.m., back at his station on Grand River near Burt Road. “You can’t get mad about every fire that happens. You have to save what you can and move on to the next fire. And if you get hurt on the job, you recover and just keep going.”
Rice, a married father of three boys, ages 4, 2 and 1, lost his footing at the blaze at 12676 Virgil, near Telegraph and I-96, which DFD Senior Chief Robert Valgoi said was called in at 3:39 a.m. A woman and children in the home were not injured. The Detroit Fire Arson Unit is expected to investigate the blaze.
The blaze on the city’s northwest side happened during Angels’ Night, part of a three-day anti-arson campaign around Halloween.
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