HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich.
(AP) - Authorities say a blaze that displaced dozens of people from a
southwest Michigan apartment complex may have been sparked by a resident
trying to cook a squirrel with a propane torch.
Fire Chief Jim Kohsel tells
MLive.com that the resident apparently planned to eat the animal and
was burning off its fur on a third-floor deck at the building in Ottawa
County's Holland Township when the fire broke out Wednesday. Flames
spread to the roof. Kohsel says eight apartments are destroyed and
others damaged.
The resident's name wasn't immediately released.
Kohsel says a firefighter broke a toe. No residents were injured.
Resident Tiffany Camburn told The Holland Sentinel that she and her neighbors had to evacuate their apartments.
The American Red Cross arranged temporary shelter and clothing for displaced residents.
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