Authorities are investigating yet another suspicious fire at the Heidelberg Street art installation on the city’s east side, Shawn D. Lewis reports in The Detroit News.
The latest target was the so-called Cake House.
Detroit Fire Department senior chief Jack Wiley said the first fire truck responded at about 5 a.m. Tuesday.
“There were no injuries, and it took about 45 minutes to put out the fire,” Wiley said.
Wiley said initial reports that a fire bomb or Molotov cocktail had been tossed into the house, which has an exterior decorated by painted birthday cakes, had not yet been confirmed. This is, however, the latest in a rash of fires that have occurred on Heidelberg Street in past months.
Several of Guyton’s Heidelberg Project houses have burned over the last year in arson fires. Houses destroyed include the “Clock House,” “War House,” “Penny House,” “Numbers House,” “Obstruction of Justice House,” “House of Soul,” and most recently the “Party Animal House.”
The ongoing arson investigation has yet to yield any new information, said Donald Dawkins, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, last week.
