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FLINT, Mich. — Crews battled at least five fires in Flint on Thursday, the same day the city began laying off a quarter of its firefighters as part of an effort to close its estimated $8 million budget deficit.
“This was a premeditated attack . . . timed to try to achieve some kind of perverted political purpose,” Mayor Dayne Walling said.
The early-morning fires broke out at four vacant homes and an empty four-story apartment building, Battalion Chief Andy Graves said. They follow four blazes at vacant homes Wednesday that Graves said left two firefighters injured.
