Everyone made it out safely, but a family is now without a home after flames ripped through their Detroit apartment.

Trucks broke down on their way to fires. They were doing everything they could, he said, but they were losing the battle. And people were dying. That fire was just one of many in Detroit.

Perhaps no other city in the world has the relationship with fire that Detroit does. If you could create a time-lapse image of the city's 313-year history, you would see a city building itself up ...