While California fires present the problem of urban encroachment into wilderness areas, most Metro Detroiters wouldn't consider living in such a scenario. However, metro Detroit is surrounded with ...

As massive as the destruction seems, it isn't without comparison in Michigan, which has seen three of the nation's deadliest fires, claiming lives and property. In the 1800s, logging land in Michigan ...

The Michigan death toll from the 1871 fires ... factor in the fire’s beginnings: People at the time were intentionally setting fires that were aimed at transforming forest-like environments ...

Perhaps the most well-known fire in the U.S. was the Great Chicago Fire, which started on Oct. 8, 1871 ... tip of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, in the Marinette and Escanaba State Forest areas.

While It’s been over a century, the “Great Michigan Fire” burned 2.5 million acres in 1871. Making it the third ... white pine and mixed hardwood forest. While California fires present ...

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

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 crime committed by a mom ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — 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 ...