Remember using a magnifying glass to start fires as a kid? That was the same basic principle that started an eight-acre grass fire off Textile Road just north of the Ford Rawsonville plant Wednesday afternoon, according to Lt. Keith Harr of the Ypsilanti Township Fire Department.
A kitchen fire this morning in Ypsilanti Township caused one injury and $25,000 in damage.
A fire caused heavy damage to a detached garage in Ypsilanti Township Sunday afternoon. The fire was reported at 12:40 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Eugene Street. Firefighters were at the scene for about two hours, said Captain Dave Crescio of the Ypsilanti Township Fire Department.
A fire that destroyed a detached garage and damaged a neighboring home Tuesday in Ypsilanti Township is being investigated as a possible arson, firefighters said. Firefighters responded to a call of flames and black smoke coming from 1355 Desoto Ave. at 6:27 p.m., said Captain Larry James of the Ypsilanti ...
Saturday morning's light snow and close to freezing temperatures created dangerous conditions on many expressways in Washtenaw County. There were numerous crashes and rollovers as well as fender-benders on M-14, US-23 and at several places along I-94.
A fire destroyed a car sitting parked at a business in Ypsilanti Township this morning. The owner of the car told firefighters he could smell something when he got out of his 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier shortly before 10 a.m. at Ypsilanti Boring Company, 1585 Beverly Ave. “Twenty minutes later someone ...
A cigarette likely ignited a fire that displaced six residents of an Ypsilanti Township apartment complex Wednesday afternoon, Fire Capt. Larry James said. Firefighters were able to contain the fire to a bedroom where it started in the Oakridge Apartments building in the 1300 block of Holmes Road. They quickly ...
An 18-year-old woman was killed in a blaze at a home on Rambling Road in Ypsilanti Township on Dec. 13. Almost a year earlier, a 45-year-old woman died during a house fire on Dorset Avenue in the township. In both cases, fire officials say, the homes didn’t have working smoke detectors ...
Freeman Tippett will miss his wife's apple pie, their moments on the dance floor together and the sunny afternoons they sat on their patio in Ypsilanti Township, listening to the birds sing. Tippett was married to his wife Grace for more than six decades and served in the Army during ...
A fire that started in a garage spread to a two-story home in the Amberly Grove subdivision in Ypsilanti Township early today, fire officials said. Fire Capt. Brad Johnson said a resident was working on a car in the garage when it caught fire just before 10 a.m. By the ...
A woman killed in a fire on Dec. 13 in Ypsilanti Township has been identified as 18-year-old Mycara Ball of Ypsilanti, family members said today. Family members said Ball died of smoke inhalation in the 11:53 p.m. blaze that gutted a two-story home in the 1200 block of Rambling Road.
Water pipes burst overnight Wednesday in an apartment building in the 1200 block of Holmes Road in Ypsilanti Township, damaging four apartments and displacing at least four residents. The heat had been turned off in two vacant apartments, said Lt. Dave Crescio of the Ypsilanti Township Fire Department. Water pipes ...
A neighbor's quick action helped curtail damage to a house in Ypsilanti Township after a shorted extension cord caught drapes on fire Sunday afternoon. A woman and her daughter heard smoke detectors going off about 2:15 p.m. in the house in the 900 block of Maplewood Avenue and saw the ...
A malfunction in a carpet cleaning van caused a fire that destroyed the van and nearly caught a customer's house on fire in Ypsilanti Township on Saturday, a firefighter said. Ypsilanti Township Fire Lt. Keith Harr said the van was at a home in the 6200 block of Maplehurst Drive, where ...
Ypsilanti Township firefighters extinguished a kitchen fire that displaced two residents in the 2800 block of Bynan Drive at about 11:15 a.m. today. The fire at the Villas at Golfside Lake was started by a "careless cook," said Ypsilanti Township Fire Capt. Larry James.
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