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For any copyright, please send me a message. The owners of the burning, two-story Detroit house where grinning firefighters took a widely-panned selfie on New Year’s Eve are “furious” over the viral image. “Everybody is furious,” Deonte Higginbotham, 21, told The Post of the brick home that’s been in his family for 50 years. “They just let it burn to the ground … Eighteen men and none of them did anything,” he added of the firefighters in the tasteless selfie. “All of them need to be fired.” see also Firefighters scorched after posing for photo in front of burning home Detroit firefighters took some heat this week when a photo... After the group snap lit up the internet, red-faced fire officials argued that the home was “vacant” and too engulfed in flames for the smoke eaters to save. “The chief in the middle of the picture there was retiring, and I think they just felt they would do this as a memento, but unfortunately, that’s probably not very professional,” Deputy Fire Commissioner Dave Fornell told The Post. “It was a fire in a vacant building … The fire was pretty involved, we were not going to go into the building. What we would do is keep the fire from spreading” to other structures, he said. Google Maps images show that the house next door and across the street from the Higginbotham’s brick two-story do appear vacant and abandoned. But Google Maps images and public records show the Higginbotham’s home at the corner of Green and Gould streets was indeed owned and well-cared for before the fire struck. In fact, the only reason Higginbotham and his mother, Dorothy, weren’t there on New Year’s Eve was that the family had been renovating the house, he said. Higginbotham still lived there with Dorothy, 70 — who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, he said. “I’ve lived in it my whole life,” growing up there with two older brothers and an older sister, Higginbotham said. “She’s really sick right now,” he said of his mother. “We were trying to get the house remodeled” to accommodate her illness, he said. “She’s staying with family” elsewhere in Detroit, he added. More On: firefighters Firefighters scorched after posing for photo in front of burning home Photos: 'Catastrophic' wildfires continue to ravage Australia All you'll want for Christmas is this hot firefighter's gift-wrapping skills Firefighters rescue cats from Long Island house fire “She doesn’t know about the fire,” he said. “I don’t even want to tell her.” Neighbors told him that the firefighters barely bothered to hit the house with water, Higginbotham said. Meanwhile, the FDNY’s own smoke eaters said Thursday that the vulgar photo would never be taken in the Big Apple — and the fire would’ve been put out. “Wow, that’s crazy,”
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