Overview
- Detroit fire officials said a building malfunction caused Wednesday's outage that triggered the evacuation.
- DTE later reported the failure involved inaccessible customer-owned equipment due to structural hazards inside the building.
- About 40 tenants lost power and were moved to a hotel in Southfield, with city housing staff providing short-term services.
- A recent court settlement kept electricity from being shut off for nonpayment, and the owners paid $57,000 this week after securing about $1.2 million in financing.
- Debate over whether to close the nearly century-old building is set to resume in January, leaving residents uncertain about returning.