Overview
- An alarm alerted staff around 3 a.m., and vice president Ahmad Nassar arrived to find water gushing from the building onto Woodward Avenue.
- By about 6:30 a.m., the first floor had roughly a foot of water as it continued to push out through doors.
- The shutoff valve was initially unreachable due to the surge, and firefighters could not access it, prompting a call for the water department to intervene.
- Before the water was shut off, flooding had spread through nearly all areas of the first floor and the basement, and the Woodward site closed for the day.
- The nonprofit’s programs serve hundreds of people, Youthville Detroit shares the facility, and other Franklin Wright locations will provide services during repairs.