The American Red Cross - Southeastern Michigan Chapter will officially begin the 2008 Blanket Days for the Homeless campaign on November 3. The campaign is now in its 21st year and the Red Cross is looking to collect 7,000 blankets. This year’s campaign lasts through January 30, 2009.
As in past years, Blanket Days will rely [...]

Fire officials are investigating whether a grill on a third-floor balcony caused the fire that forced the evacuation of all 50 or so residents from the Cherry Hill condominium building Thursday night.
Beverly fire Capt. Peter O’Connor said yesterday the cause of the fire has not been determined. But he said investigators from the Beverly Fire [...]

John Tlapek bought a three-bedroom, three bath condo in the new Maryland Walk development in Clayton at 8025 Maryland Ave. for $1,226,483 from Clayton-based Conrad Properties on Jan. 10.
Unit #7K covers 2,819 square feet.
St. Louis-based real estate company Elizabeth Robb and Associates completed the sale.
Mr. Tlapek is a private equities investor and holds an executive [...]

Firefighters rescued eight people Wednesday from a smoke-filled condominium building in York County after fire started in a first-floor unit, an official said.
The blaze was reported about 3:45 p.m., and firefighters reached the complex, in the Burnt Bridge subdivision near Fort Eustis Boulevard, within minutes, said Capt. Paul Long, of York County Department of Fire [...]

At least 21 people were left homeless Monday after a smoky fire damaged their Annapolis condominium building.
The American Red Cross paid for 16 adults and five children from the Fairwinds complex at area hotels for two nights. But a Red Cross official said those families must now find new places to stay until repairs can [...]

A husband and wife were flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with burns and other injuries after their condominium unit exploded into a fireball yesterday afternoon at Emerson Court.
“It was a big boom. It shook my house,” said Michael Greenebaum, who lives across the street at Chadwick Court. “I couldn’t tell what it was [...]

At least 36 people were evacuated from an extended-stay hotel Wednesday after water service was cut to the hotel because the owner did not pay the bill.
The number includes at least one family who said they had paid to stay at the Fayetteville Inn & Suites through the end of the year, as well as [...]

The Chenango River rages less than 100 yards from the Binghamton Regency Hotel and Conference Center.
But it couldn’t be blamed for the mess inside the downtown hotel.
Flood walls that separate the river from the hotel did their job this week. But the city’s storm sewers could not.
Friday, fire hoses stretched from basement windows across the [...]