BELVIDERE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A house fire on Lake Montcalm spread to two other houses Sunday night in Montcalm County, but no one was injured.
The first fire broke out around 7:42 p.m. Sunday in Belvidere Township, near Six Lakes. FOX 17’s Matt Lesniak on the scene says a family member told him their house is a total loss. The other two houses – one on either side of the house that was ruined – suffered much less extensive damage. A shed was charred, as well.
Montcalm County Central dispatchers initially reported one cottage was on fire, but then it spread. Firefighters on the scene didn’t say why it spread, and there was no word on what started the fire. The location was in the 600 block of Lake Drive, on the north side of Lake Montcalm. That’s not far from Horseshoe Lake.
Dispatchers say residents inside the first home that caught on fire notified authorities after they evacuated. A family member tells FOX 17 there were five people inside the house at the time.
Dispatchers say crews from the Belvidere Township Fire Department were the ones primarily fighting the fire. But firefighters from three other departments responded, as well.
Investigators didn’t say whether the fire started inside or outside the house that first caught on fire.
