MLive: Chelsea man dies en route to daughter's burning Waterloo Township farm

By John Counts Crime and courts reporter

Posted on Fri, Feb 8, 2013 : 6:07 p.m.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire that destroyed a barn on Thursday afternoon on Harvey Road in Waterloo Township.

J. Scott Park | Mlive.com

Brian Koch was heading to his daughter's Waterloo Township farm Thursday where a barn-destroying fire was raging when he had a heart attack and crashed his vehicle, MLive reports.

The 55-year-old Chelsea man later died.

Koch was less than four miles from the fire, reported about 12:30 p.m. at 14640 Harvey Road in Waterloo Township, according to MLive. A fire truck en route to the fire was diverted to the accident at Cavanaugh Lake and Pierce roads just west of Chelsea in Sylvan Township.

Koch was taken to the University of Michigan Hospital, where he died.

The fire destroyed the barn and officials said 14-16 sheep are believed to have perished inside.

Funeral arrangements for Koch are pending through Chelsea's Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home.

Read the MLive story.