Detroit fire union: bodies left behind after fires 'going on awhile'

DETROIT (WJBK) - We're learning more about the discovery of Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer's late son.

He was found dead inside a burned up home more than two weeks after a house fire and Detroit's Fire Union and City Officials.

Dwyer's body was discovered in a burned out vacant house in Detroit. But you have to back up to almost 20 days before when this same house was on fire to understand the story- crews put out the flames.

But they were told on the dispatch radio: "Use extreme caution the interior of the building may be collapsing."

The structure wasn't safe to go in so what is the protocol? A city spokesman says if a search isn't safe, there are other ways to look from the outside.

We are told the city didn't act because they had no information someone could be in there. Fire Commissioner Eric Jones released a statement Friday to say:

"When we were contacted by the Southfield Police Department with credible information we acted immediately, as we would have done if that information had been provided to us the day of the fire. "

FOX 2: "What's the appropriate action to make sure that the building is cleared since we know sometimes there are bodies in abandoned buildings?"

"This has been going on for a while and it is going to happen again," said Michael Nevin, president Detroit Fire Fighters Association. "It doesn't matter who was in that building it is a human life. This is happening far too much. There is specialized equipment, specialized lighting. 

"We need to do what we used to do - and that is do these jobs professionally."

Nevin blames the late discovery on not having enough resources.

"There are things we need to do in 2018 to bring our department back to where it was, pre-bankruptcy," he said.

Nevin says crews could have used building collapse specialists and equipment cadaver dogs, high angle equipment and air light units. The city says a unit to light up the area was never requested by personnel on scene the night of the fire... and cadaver dogs would go in with a handler.

Back in March another body was found after a fire but the city says that was a different case. That home they say was safe and was not searched well enough.

The union rejects that saying they did their job.