Fire officials say “challenging circumstances within the house," including items that were obstacles for firefighters, made it difficult to get to the trapped victims.

City of Detroit maintenance workers could only board up the windows in the charred and frozen aftermath of a deadly fire that tore through a home on 12000 block of Rutherford – near Greenfield and I-96 – on Detroit’s west side early Sunday morning.

Three dead, two injured in a Detroit house fire on Wildemere Street. Firefighters faced obstacles during the rescue.

Multiple injuries were reported in the aftermath of a house fire early Monday along Wildemere Street in Detroit.

Detroit fire officials are investigating multiple house fires that broke out Tuesday morning, including a blaze that destroyed two vacant homes and damaged one family’s home on Dwyer Street.

A family of 17 is now looking for any help they can get after a fire ripped through their home in Detroit early Tuesday morning. It was one of a rash of blazes that have hit the city as the cold weeks have dragged on in Southeast Michigan.

A spokesperson for the department tells us the fire started around 4:30 a.m. at a home in the 15000 block of Stansbury, with firefighters getting to the scene in less than five minutes. That spokesperson said that a firefighter was transported to a nearby ...

A 6-year-old girl has died, and a woman was seriously hurt following a house fire on Sunday morning on Detroit's west side.