A local church is welcoming in those impacted by Tuesday's condo explosion in Orion Township, offering food, water, and a place to sleep.

Christ the Redeemer Church is located right across the street from the Keatington New Town Association condos, where the explosion happened.

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It's where we found 74-year-old Ross Flore. His home was damaged in the blast.

"My bedroom and my son's bedroom are on the other side so that's what took the direct brunt of the explosion," said Flore.

He said Tuesday's explosion at the condos is like nothing he's ever experienced before.

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"A lot of devastation here," he said.

But what he was most worried about was his cat, Snickers.

"I didn't even think of grabbing my driver's license, my car keys, my medications, anything," he said.

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She was found by firefighters in a pile of rubble, unharmed, the morning after the explosion.

"I prayed for you," he told Snickers.

Both Ross and Snickers, are now left without a home.

The church across the street is providing a safe haven for them and anyone else in need.

"We're lucky to have people like that, that will open up their hearts and let people in," he said.

Father William Promesso said local restaurants have been donating food to the church to give to victims and fire crews.

"We're able to provide food, drink," said Father William.

Owner of Professor Soups, Todd Messer, provided lunch on Wednesday.

"We've been a part of this community for our whole lives, so it just hurts to hear people are hurting over here," said Messer.

The food, shelter, and comfort being offered by Christ the Redeemer Church means a lot to young couple Drake and Nina Falconer.

"We came home to our whole house in flames," said Drake Falconer.

But they tell me they're still looking for their cats, asking everyone in this area to keep an eye out for Ambrose and Fergus.

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"Those were our first pets as a couple. Those are family. It's not just pets," said Drake.

And while the search continues for all the lost pets, and fire crews pick up all the pieces left behind from the explosion as they continue with their investigation, Father William says this church will be right here, for anyone who needs it.

"Whether we're doing it for humanitarian reasons or for religious reasons, the end result is the same, we're able to take care of those who live nearby us," he said.

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On Tuesday, 39-year-old Micah Parker was reunited with the Detroit Medical Center staff who helped save his life after he suffered a heart attack on the job just a few months ago.

"I'm just happy to be here," Parker said.

He said it was his coworker for the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers Union Local 2, Alan Mamere, who ultimately rescued him on Sept. 13.

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"I just had to do something," Mamere said.

The two bricklayers say it started out as a normal day and no,w it is a day they will never forget.

"We were talking about the next job I was going to and that's when it happened," Parker said.

"Before I could even turn around, he was already down," Mamere said.

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According to DMC cardiologist Carlos Oviedo, Parker's main artery was 100% blocked.

"The most important thing that the CPR did was to prevent his brain to suffer from the lack of blood flow," Oviedo said.

Mamere knew how to do CPR because Bricklayer's Local 2 requires all 3,700 of its employees to take training classes. It is something he and many of his coworkers previously considered a waste of time.

"We're all a bunch of construction workers. We were like the last thing we're going to have to do is use it. You know, we might get a cut or something but CPR, nah, we don't need it, but I guess we need it," Mamere said.

Foreman, Robert Ader said he will also be keeping a defibrillator in his work car from now on.

"The way we work, high in the air, high on scaffold, the trip to the ground to get it when you don't know where it's at could be the difference between him being here and not," Ader said.

Since the scare, Mamere said his outlook on CPR training has changed.

"Now, it's something you're like at any moment in time it could happen so, it's nice to know I'm capable of doing it if I need to apply it I can make it happen," Mamere said.

Local 2 is asking people in the community to get CPR training if possible and to take it seriously.

"It's not a game, at all. If you're not paying attention to anything dealing with that stuff just go because it's not a game and I'm a testament to that," Parker said.

Plymouth-Canton Ballet Company is calling on the community for help after their trailer full of precious props was stolen early in the morning.

"The white truck came, backed right up to that spot, they must have sawed it off, hooked up, and drove off. This happened within 5 minutes," Artistic Director of the company June Smith said.

Just a few minutes is all it took for someone to wipe out decades of hard work when they stole a trailer full of Nutcracker props around 3 a.m.

Surveillance video shows truck with trailer attached

Smith said this comes just three weeks before the company's 40th Anniversary Nutcracker performance.

"I'm sure these things don't mean a lot to the people who took them, but they mean a lot to us," Smith said.

"I mean they make the ballet come together. Without them, the story and the scene doesn't really, it's not able to come to life and the audience isn't able to connect with what we're able to do," company member Sophia Vella said.

"If we don't have props we can't make our story come to life," young company member Brayden Vanbynen said.

Thousands of dollars were put into these pieces, according to volunteer prop designer and dance dad, Nathan Vanbynen.

"How are we going to pay for all of this? Being a non-profit, we only have a bunch of money in the bank and whatever we do make through ticket sales it goes back into paying for the auditorium and programs and stuff like that," Vanbynen said.

He has under a month to rebuild things like a throne, growing Christmas tree, and grandfather clock. All of which are well over 10 ft. tall.

"All of this is really a labor of love and we're really going to have to chip in where we can and make sure we get it done," Vanbynen said.

Smith said that many of the props that were stolen were also sentimental.

"We had a backdrop behind the thrown that a family member had made who has now passed away so, her memory is still in that," Smith said.

The company is asking people in the community to be on the lookout for their trailer and their props.

"If there's anything that they can see as far as props or anything that has been dumped some place," Smith said.

Canton police are investigating and asking the public to keep an eye out for the stolen trailer.

Smith is encouraging anyone looking to help to buy tickets to their show.

They also have a GoFundMe to help offset the cost of materials for new props.

They're the heartbreaking stories of people failing the pets they once promised to love, and the volunteers and vets at Woodhaven Animal Hospital have seen it all when it comes to abuse.

Dr. Lucretia Grear has extensive experience when it comes to saving animals from abuse. More than two decades of it. She said, the problem is only getting worse.

"Generally a month doesn't go by, even a couple weeks doesn't go by and we're dealing with some form of abuse or neglect," Grear said.

One of her most recent rescues was a tiny chihuahua named Minnie, who had to have one of her eyes removed after suffering severe abuse.

Her new owner, Lori, is looking forward to giving her a new home.

"I feel bad that there's people out there that will do this to animals and be able to sleep at night," Lori said. "Instead of getting a puppy, go get one that has some kind of disability and help them. Give them another chance."

But Minnie is just one of many animals in the metro Detroit area that Grear is stitching back up.

Another recent rescue is a German Shepherd named Maddie. Her leg needed to be amputed after she was dumped and then hit by a car. Romulus Animal Control Officer Rachel Ohneck adopted her.

"Just wanted to give her a loving home, make sure she was okay," Ohneck said.

I asked Ohneck what they're seeing at the Romulus Animal Shelter.

"Just a lot of malnourishment. A lot of people haven't come and claimed their dogs even when they're microchipped. Financially, I don't think people can afford their animals anymore," she said.

Grear believes the issue began in 2020.

"I think a lot of people got new pets because of COVID-19 and feeling like they had time and then with the economy and everything and just the expense," she said. "The reality of having these animals kind of set in and then people realized you know what, maybe this isn't a good idea."

The numbers reflect that. According to Michigan Incident Crime Reporting, there's been an almost 90% increase in the number of cruelty cases.

"We started out just servicing Wayne County. By now we service the entire Detroit area and probably beyond that," Woodhaven Mayor Patricia Odette said.

Odette is helping save as many animals as she can by creating a nonprofit called Animal Resource Funding Foundation, better

known as ARFF, to support reduces.

"I've probably seen and my organization has seen the worst of the worst," Odette said.

"Do you think that if the repercussions were stronger then maybe people would stop?" I asked.

"I would like to think that but then the resources are a problem right. That would be hiring more prosecutors just for animals and I'm all for that but at the end of the day, there's money constraints," she said.

Money constraints, as well as time constraints, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

"We have an over-abundance of homicides we have to look at, we have, you know, we have 10,000 domestic violence warrants that come in just in domestic violence, we have over 500 that come in on child abuse. So, we really have to use our resources the best we can," Worthy said.

She said her office doesn't have a unit dedicated to animal abuse cases. Most prosecuting offices don't.

But there's a group of volunteers who follow through on warrant requests.

Worthy said she's been trying for years to strengthen animal cruelty laws.

"I think that we are much better off than we were before, but of course, the laws could be more stringent as well," she said.

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