BAY PORT, MI — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25, almost by accident. “Great Fire of 1881” the ...

Michigan State Police say a fire truck was struck while parked at an emergency scene Wednesday in West Michigan.

And the other was the Great Michigan Fire, which covered about 2.5 million acres across Michigan, from Holland and Manistee to Port Huron. The Peshtigo fire is considered by a wide margin to be ...

“Great Fire of 1881” the marker read, followed by a 90-word summation of one of the deadliest — perhaps the deadliest — fire events in Michigan history. Snyder is a historian who knows a ...

It’s time to take heed and assessment. While It’s been over a century, the “Great Michigan Fire” burned 2.5 million acres in 1871. Making it the third-largest wildfire in U.S. history.

MT. MORRIS, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) - A 66-year-old Michigan man died in a house fire on Saturday after he was unable to leave his home due to "severe hoarding," police say. According to the Mt.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A western Michigan woman is accused of setting a house fire that killed her 12-year-old daughter who was trapped in a bedroom. “This is a shockingly cruel, unimaginable ...