Report: No one hurt in house fire, explosion near Greenville
EUREKA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — No one was hurt when a fire broke out at a home near Greenville on Thursday, a local newspaper reports.
Just before 8 p.m., crews with the Greenville Department of Public Safety were sent to W. Baker Road near the Montcalm-Kent County line, the Greenville Daily News reported.
Homeowner Kristine Bowen told the newspaper that her son discovered that the house was on fire when he went to the kitchen for a snack and let her and her husband.
“My husband and I were in bed when (my son) came upstairs to get a snack and the whole front of the house was on fire,” she told the newspaper. “The whole front door … Flames were coming through the front door and the windows.”
The three of them, along with their two dogs, were able to escape.
The newspaper reported a propane tank on the porch exploded while the fire crews were on the scene.
The Greenville Daily News reported firefighters rescued the family’s three cats from inside the home, but the two dogs, a black Great Dane named Buster and a white Great Pyrenees St. Bernard named Maggie, ran off into the surrounding woods. Neighbors are helping the family look for them.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, the newspaper reported.
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